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Angelou on Michelle: Welcome the 'Real Deal'

Poet celebrates future first lady as 'the real deal'

By Wesley Oliver,  Newser Staff

Posted Jan 18, 2009 10:52 AM CST

(Newser) – North Carolina, the state that gave us Jesse Helms and more than a few Klan members, went wild for Michelle Obama at a September rally as a stunned Maya Angelou watched, the poet recalls in the Washington Post. People of all races gave a thunderous...   Read full story »

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