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Aug 2023
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Michelle Obama

Higher Ground
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On the very first episode of Your Mama’s Kitchen, we’re joined by former First Lady, Michelle Lavaughn Robinson Obama. Mother, lawyer and author of her latest title The Light We Carry, Michelle talks about her beginnings in a working class family on the South Side of Chicago and the delicious Red Rice her mother made that she says is perfect to take anywhere.

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