In Go, Tell Michelle, older black women put their words of wisdom for America’s newest First Lady in writing.
[From NPR]
All Things Considered, January 7, 2009 · In churches or beauty shops or anyplace where groups of women gather – especially black women – it is not uncommon for them to talk about the advice they would like to pass on to the incoming first lady.
A group of women in upstate New York went one step further and decided to publish their words of wisdom for Michelle Obama in a book called Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the New First Lady.
The poems and letters were compiled by two education specialists, Barbara Seals Nevergold and Peggy Brooks-Bertram, who are co-founders of the Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women at the University at Buffalo in New York.
The idea blossomed after the Obamas were portrayed as fist-thumping terrorists on a New Yorker magazine cover last July.
To read the rest of the article and listen to an audio clip, click here. What words of wisdom would YOU share with Michelle Obama?
