How my grandfather was like Michelle Obama’s
by Deborah Johnson
Feb 13, 2023
3 minutes
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I keep coming back to Michelle Obama’s “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times” because it speaks to something deep inside me. While Mrs. Obama shows the same willingness to tell her truth as she did in her 2019 bestselling memoir “Becoming,” she is most powerful, most relatable, when she shines her light on the contributions of ordinary Black men.
The accomplishments of these men can so often be obscured (and understandably so) by the
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