Michelle Obama: Jackson confirmation gives Black girls and women ‘a new dream to dream’

Michelle Obama: Jackson confirmation gives Black girls and women ‘a new dream to dream’

Rachel Scully

Thu, April 7, 2022, 8:27 PM

Former First Lady Michelle Obama praised the historic confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the Supreme Court’s first Black female justice on Thursday, thanking Jackson for giving Black girls and women “a new dream to dream.”

In an Instagram post Thursday, Obama said she was moved to see Jackson confirmed.

“Like so many of you, I can’t help but feel a sense of pride—a sense of joy—to know that this deserving, accomplished Black woman will help chart our nation’s course,” she wrote. “So many women of color now have a new role model to look up to as she serves on the highest court of the land.”

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Michelle Obama is helping feed thousands of families here in Philadelphia. The former first lady announced Tuesday that her Pass The Love campaign is coming to Philadelphia next month.

The first African-American First Lady of the United States. Through her four main initiatives, she became a role model for women and an advocate for healthy families, service members and their families, higher education, and international adolescent girls education.

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Michelle Obama

This is a woman that is always very articulate.  She know what she wants to say and she is well versed in her topic.  

She would be a formidable opponent to anyone in the political arena.  She should run for political office, we need women like her, now, more than ever.

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama^[1] (née Robinson; born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and author

who served as the First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She was the first African-American woman to serve in this position. She is married to the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama.

Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, Obama is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. In her early legal career, she worked at the law firm Sidley Austin where she met Barack Obama. She subsequently worked in nonprofits and as the associate dean of Student Services at the University of

Chicago as well as the vice president for Community and External Affairs of the University of Chicago Medical Center. Michelle married Barack in 1992, and together they have two daughters.

Obama campaigned for her husband's presidential bid throughout 2007 and 2008, delivering a keynote address at the 2008 Democratic National Convention. She has subsequently delivered acclaimed speeches at the 2012, 2016, and 2020 conventions.

As first lady, Obama served as a role model for women and worked as an advocate for poverty awareness, education, nutrition, physical activity, and healthy eating. She supported American designers and was considered a fashion icon.^[2][3]

After her husband's presidency, her influence remained high; in 2020, Obama topped Gallup's poll of the most admired woman in America for the third year running. (Michelle Obama - Wikipedia)

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