How to Raise a Smart Black Woman

Michelle Obama’s parents followed this formula. Here’s why you should too.

TatshaRobertson
ZORA
Published in
9 min readJun 13, 2019

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BBefore Michelle Obama reached kindergarten, she could read. At age 7, she skipped second grade. She would also eventually graduate from Princeton and Harvard Law. Although she married a man who’d make her the First Lady of the United States, she was already exceptional — in…

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