This Mother’s Day, ESSENCE magazine will feature the Mobama issue. Adorning the cover of the May edition will be First Lady Michelle Obama and First Grandmother Marian Robinson, who not only provide the African-American women’s periodical with a major-league coup but the public with a bona fide look at what Mother’s Day is all about. Speaking to the magazine from the first lady’s East Wing office, the mother-daughter duo spoke about life in the presidential mansion and why glowing role models are so important.  “Michelle has always been Michelle,” said the 71-year-old Robinson. “And she has always accomplished whatever it was she set out to accomplish. I have always looked up to Michelle because she has been able to do things that I couldn’t do emotionally, psychologically or physically. I think she is amazing.” Mrs. Obama was just as laudatory of her mom: “She made me who I am,” said Michelle Obama, who has two daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7. The first lady also discussed her responsibility to provide motherly advice to the world. “We have to talk about flex hours and exercise and nutrition and health and what that means. And we have to talk about values and our relationship with men,” she says. “All of those are part of the conversation that I think we need to have, not just in this country but around the world.” The Obama mamas might even pen a parenting book in the future, Michelle Obama said.

Michelle Obama is on Her Game
While the president has been keeping the East Room abuzz and wrangling with Congress over spending bills – the self-proclaimed “Mommy-in-Chief” has been just as busy settling into the White House and staking her claim as an advocate for military families.  Read more.
Cheney Blasts Obama

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who along with his former boss have been the subject of investigation rumors for the run-up to the war in Iraq, blasted the new commander in chief Sunday, saying that President Barack Obama is making America more vulnerable to terrorism and future war. Read the rest.

First Lady Michelle Obama will grace the cover of the esteemed fashion magazine Vogue next month, The Washington Post reports. When the magazine hits the stands in March, Michelle Obama will be chilling on the cover in an elegant yet simple magenta dress by Jason Wu, who designed her inaugural ball gown, according to the newspaper. The photographs were taken by renowned fashion flicker Annie Leibovitz, who also shot then-First Lady Hillary Clinton in her Vogue cover debut in December 1998. The goal at the time was to get Mrs. Clinton out of the business suit and into something a bit more fashionable, said Anna Wintour, Vogue’s longtime editor in chief. With the new first lady, Wintour says she wants to highlight her fashion-forward style.

First Lady Making Her Round
Michelle Obama is making her rounds around Washington, and each event brings out a side of the First Lady folks may not have seen. Tuesday, she visited Mary’s Center, a community health center in Adams Morgan that provides an array of services to the Latino community and got a few tough questions from the young folks.
Mississippi Mayor Smashes Crack House
Did a Mississippi mayor go too far when he directed a group of people to destroy a suspected crack house? That’s the case before the federal court, where prosecutors are accusing Jackson, Miss., Mayor Frank Melton of violating the civil rights of the house’s owner and her tenant. In August 2006, Melton told a group of men to destroy what he believed to be a crack house, using sticks and sledgehammers. Melton doesn’t deny that he damaged the duplex, and has said he was just keeping true to the promise he made to aggressively cut crime. He and his former bodyguard, Michael Recio, face up to 25 years in prison on three felony charges. They’ve both pleaded not guilty and Melton has previously been acquitted on state charges. Another former guard, Marcus Wright, took a plea deal and has testified against the mayor and others. Click for more.