Word Rapport: American Tapestry by Rachel Swarns with Khalil Gibran Muhammad →
Rachel Swarns, reporter for The New York Times, presents a genealogy of First Lady Michelle Obama’s family. Ms. Swarns reports that Mrs. Obama’s ancestry is multiracial andis composed of those who fought in theAmerican Revolution and Civil War to African Americans who faced Jim Crow laws and relocated from the South to the North in the Great Migration. Ms. Swarns discusses the First Lady’s ancestry with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City.
