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First Lady Michelle Obama gives farewell speech, A Princeton University and Harvard Law School graduate, Michelle Obama leaves the White House with a 79 percent approval rating, compared to President Obama's final approval rating of 65 percent, which far exceeds the 22 percent final approval rating of President Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush....Michelle Obama, scholarly and strong, helped Barack Obama become president, the first Black president and who will deliver his farewell speech at 8 pm CST on January 10 in Chicago....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of www.clevelandurbannew.com and www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

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First Lady Michelle Obama gave her farewell speech at the White House on Friday, January 6.  President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, the first Black president and first Black first lady of the United States of America. On Friday, January 6 First Lady Mitchell Obama gave her farewell speech at a podium at the White House. President Obama will deliver his farewell speech on Tuesday, January 10 at 8 pm CST at McCormick Place in Chicago.  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) /   ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ). Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 3.5 million views on Google Plus alone. Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com By Editor-in-Chief  Kathy Wray Coleman, a-24-year journalist who trained at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio for 17 years, and who interviewed now President Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview,   C

President Obama sworn in on MLK holiday for second term, president mentions Civil Rights, women's rights, gay rights in inaugural speech, First Lady Michelle Obama simmers in red at inaugural ball, Congressional Black Caucus Chairperson Marcia L. Fudge says Obama's election and reelection as the first Black president signifies the 'strength of the American democracy,' Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, Stevie Wonder among stars that performed, Ohio native and Grammy award winning artist John Legend was there too, Legend said that had Romney won for president women and the economy would have suffered tremendously

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United States President Barack Obama takes the oath of office for a second term as president next to First Lady Michelle Obama at a swearing in ceremony on Jan 21, the day that Americans also celebrated the national holiday of slain Civil Rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.     By Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray Coleman, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog, Ohio's Most Read Online Black Newspaper ( www.cleve landurbannews.com ) WASHINGTON, D.C.- Before over a half a million people that took to the nation's capital for inaugural activities on the holiday commemorating the birthday of slain Civil Rights leader the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Democratic President Barack Obama, the first Black president of the United States of America, took the oath of office for a second term yesterday with First Lady Michelle Obama by his side and daughters Malia and Sasha a stone's throw away. The late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King J

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wish everyone a Merry Christmas, click here to watch their Merry Christmas video with a message of blessings to all, president, first lady remember victims of Hurricane Sandy, Connecticut shootings, salute veterans, U.S. military troops, their families

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Weekly Address: The president and first lady extend a holiday greeting and thank our troops for their service WASHINGTON, D.C.-In this week’s address, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wished everyone a Merry Christmas and happy holidays, and they thanked America's brave troops and their families for their service. The president and first lady ask the American people to visit      Joining Forces.Gov (Click Here To Go There)   to find ways to honor and support our veterans and military families, and say that we must all come together, as we always do, to care for each   other during this holiday  ( www.clevelandurbannews.com )  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com and by phone at 216-659-0473.

Michelle Obama thanks volunteers, pushes Ohioans to get-out-the-vote during speech at Tri-C, 101- year- old supporter that attended said she prays for the president, says Obama is better for Ohio, Ohio State Senator Nina Turner comments on visit to Cleveland by first lady

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First  Lady  Michelle Obama at a get-out-the-vote rally on Oct. 15 at Cuyahoga Community College Metro Campus in Cleveland, Oh. Ohio is a pivotal state for presidential elections By Johnette Jernigan and Kathy Wray Coleman, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Cleveland Urban News.Com Blog ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) Cleveland, Ohio -Michelle Obama told a cheering crowd at Cuyahoga Community College Metro Campus in Cleveland, Oh. on Monday evening that she knows President Barack Obama not only as a president but as a man whose vision for America was shaped long before he won the White House in 2008. “Barack knows the American dream because he has lived it,” said Mrs. Obama."'I have seen up close and personal what being president is like." Some 2,000 people came out for the get-out-the-vote rally, according to Claire Rasacco, vice president of the Tri-C  Metro Department of Government and Community Relations. The eldest Obama supporter there made it clear that

Michelle Obama's brother to speak tonight, Oct, 2, in Cleveland at 7 pm at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church, 1161 E. 105th St. at get out the vote rally

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First Lady Michelle Obama and her older brother Craig Robinson By Kathy Wray Coleman, Executive Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND,Ohio- Craig Robinson, the older and only brother of First Lady Michelle Obama, and also President Barack Obama's brother-in-law, will speak at 7 pm tonight, Oct 2, at Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church in Cleveland 1161 E. 105th St. for a get out the vote rally. Today marked early voting in Ohio, a pivotal state that determines presidential elections.  The event is free and open to the public. For more information contact Greater Abyssinia at 216-.795-1842. Robinson, 50, is the head men's basketball coach at Oregon State University.  Reach Cleveland Urban News.Com by telephone at 216-659-0473 and by email at editor@clevelandurbannews.com.

Obama leads Romney in Ohio and in country since Democratic convention, Ohio State Rep. Bill Patmon calls Obama and Clinton a powerhouse, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, who attended the convention, says Obama's convention speech was great, but First Lady Michelle Obama's speech was even greater

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Democratic United States President Barack Obama Former Democratic United States President Bill Clinton United States First Lady Michelle Obama Ohio State Representative Bill Patmon (D-Cleveland) Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald (D-OH) By Kathy Wray Coleman, Associate Publisher, Editor, Cleveland Urban News. Com and The Kathy Wray Coleman Online News Blog.Com  ( www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com ) and ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CHARLOTTE, North Carolina- President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton teamed up last week at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC and showed how performances at national party conventions can dictate outcomes on election day. Since the convention Obama has broken a previous tie that he had coming in to it and now leads 49% to GOP opponent Mitt Romey's 45%, with 3% undecided and another  3% saying they will vote for other candidates, according to a presidential tracking poll on Sunday by the

First Lady Michelle Obama visits Cleveland to thank campaign volunteers and hold Obama campaign fundraiser at Progressive Field, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald, State Sen Shirley Smith, retired judge and former county recorder Lillian Greene, Cleveland Police Chief Michael McGraph, Cleveland Councilman Jeff Johnson, others attend fundraiser

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First Lady Michelle Obama Below, the first lady walks the Terrace Room at Progressive Field in Cleveland on May 21 to thank volunteers for the Obama for America campaign before attending an afternoon fundraiser . (Photo by Johnette Jernigan) By Johnette Jernigan, Cleveland Urban News.Com  Staff Reporter ( www.clevelandurbannews.com ) CLEVELAND, Ohio-Slim and poised, First Lady Michelle Obama, the most photographed first lady in American and world history, thanked a group of approximately 150 Obama campaign committee volunteers from Cleveland and its surrounding suburbs before attending an intimate fundraiser of roughly 250 supporters at Progressive Field on Mon. afternoon in Cleveland.   (Editor's note: Read First Lady Michelle Obama's comments midway through this article).      Campaign organizers said that the volunteers, who were invited as special guests to meet  the first lady,  have  made tons of phone calls and knocked on more