{"id":951636,"date":"2021-11-01T22:43:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T02:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=951636"},"modified":"2021-11-01T22:43:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T02:43:54","slug":"michelle-obama-bringing-becoming-tour-to-college-students-with-black-ish-star-yara-shahidi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michelle-obama-bringing-becoming-tour-to-college-students-with-black-ish-star-yara-shahidi\/","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Obama Bringing &#039;Becoming&#039; Tour to College Students with &#039;Black-ish&#039; Star Yara Shahidi"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmichelle-obama-bringing-becoming-tour-to-college-students-with-black-ish-star-yara-shahidi%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=951636&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Michelle Obama\u2019s next promotion for her memoir \u201cBecoming\u201d will center on college students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">The former first lady will appear Nov. 9 at 1 p.m. with \u201cblack-ish\u201d actor Yara Shahidi for a livestream conversation with students from 22 schools throughout the country, from Cal Poly Pomona to Prince George\u2019s Community College in Largo, Maryland, from where Obama and Shahidi will speak.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">BET plans to televise the event at a later date, to be determined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">\u201cI can\u2019t wait to hear from students across our country as they navigate their studies and lives during this unprecedented time,\u201d Obama said in a statement Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">\u201cAs a first-generation college student myself, I remember my own struggles to manage classes and figure out my place on campus \u2014 and I can\u2019t even imagine how much harder it is to do it during a pandemic, when so much feels like it\u2019s constantly up in the air. I just hope they realize that moments of self-doubt and fear are completely natural, but if we embrace those moments \u2014 if we own our stories and use our voices \u2014 we can share the very best parts of ourselves with the world.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18558074\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" readability=\"40\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP16285629317888.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18558074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AP16285629317888.jpg\" alt width=\"1920\" height=\"1346\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>First lady Michelle Obama applauds actress Yara Shahidi while participating in Glamour\u2019s \u201cA Brighter Future: A Global Conversation on Girls\u2019 Education,\u201d in celebration of International Day of the Girl and Let Girls Learn, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, at the Newseum in Washington. (AP Photo\/Molly Riley)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Along with the Nov. 9 event, Crown is donating 100 copies to each of 12 schools in the Maryland Community College Consortium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">\u201cWe know the book has been deeply impactful for young people, especially young women, and has become a kind of touchstone,\u201d Drake said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Obama\u2019s book, published in 2018, has sold nearly 10 million copies in the U.S. alone, and continues to sell more than 2,000 copies a week, according to Crown president David Drake. Most political memoirs, even ones by presidents or first ladies, are forgotten after the initial publicity. But Obama\u2019s book has been assigned everywhere from Ohio State University to Fresno City College, in courses ranging from composition to Black women\u2019s studies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Julie Gallagher, an associate professor of history at Penn State Brandywine, included the book in her course on civil rights in the modern era. She noted that civil rights narratives often focus on the South, but that Obama grew up in Chicago, and so told a story of a Northern state. And Gallagher found Obama\u2019s memoir an invaluable contrast to how Black women often are portrayed in the media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">\u201cHere\u2019s this woman who comes from a very strong, loving family,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is a story of love, determination, grit, community, of multiple generations working to strive for the American dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">In 2020, the University of California, Irvine, included \u201cBecoming\u201d in its \u201cGreat Big Read\u201d for students, faculty and staff. Marguerite Bonous-Hammarth, the school\u2019s assistant vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion, told The Associated Press that themes discussed included \u201cself-identity, patriotism, relationships across significant others and families, as well as questioning roles and finding ways to circumvent the incidences and impacts of discrimination in society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Earlier this year, Crown released a young readers edition, for ages 10 and up, that Obama will help promote when she appears at the National Council of Teachers of English convention on Nov. 18. She will deliver the keynote address and speak with the vice president of the NCTE, Valerie Kinloch, the first Black woman dean of the University of Pittsburgh\u2019s School of Education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-61 Component-p-0-2-52\">Elsewhere, Obama is continuing to tap her&nbsp;deep celebrity connections ahead of next year\u2019s midterms to push key legislation including the&nbsp;John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. If passed and signed into the law,&nbsp;the act would federalize elections and cancel voter identification requirements.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"5.8303886925795\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Join us September 23 at 8pm EST for our virtual <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NationalVoterRegistrationDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NationalVoterRegistrationDay<\/a> Week of Action Kickoff Rally with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CP3?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CP3<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichelleObama?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MichelleObama<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BackToTheBallotBox?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BackToTheBallotBox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RSVP \u27a1\ufe0f \u27a1\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kUa3hhG4M9\">https:\/\/t.co\/kUa3hhG4M9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X4mLDfsHb7\">pic.twitter.com\/X4mLDfsHb7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 When We All Vote (@WhenWeAllVote) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhenWeAllVote\/status\/1440386614945988610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Michelle Obama\u2019s next promotion for her memoir \u201cBecoming\u201d will center on college students. The former first lady will appear Nov. 9 at 1 p.m. with \u201cblack-ish\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}