The power of black

With a running time of 89 minutes, this film was directed by Nadia Hallgren who followed her high-profile protagonist on a 34-city book tour to promote her bestselling memoir Becoming

“If we are going to get anywhere with each other, we have to be willing to say who we are. I am a former First Lady of the United States and also a descendant of slaves. It’s important to keep that truth right there,” says Michelle Obama in a new documentary film titled Becoming, which was released on Netflix last month. Though she has studied at Princeton and Harvard, worked at a law firm called Sidley & Austin, and served in leadership roles at the University of Chicago, she is best known for being the wife of Barack Obama —