First Lady Advocacy of the Arts

A Washington Post article on Michelle Obama's relationship to the arts and the arts programming at the White House:

After a year and a half of an Obama White House, which has included more than 50 cultural events, this student workshop epitomizes the first lady's approach to the arts. Her philosophy is defined by an emphasis on education and access for those who are often locked out.

Let Them Eat Vegetables

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President, first lady catch performance of 'Thurgood' at Kennedy Center

By Associated Press

June 11, 2010 | 5:08 p.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and the first lady are watching a sold-out play about a former Supreme Court justice at the Kennedy Center.

The president and Michelle Obama were seen in the president's box at the Kennedy Center, where they are taking in a performance of "Thurgood," a play about Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.

Marshall was the first black justice on the court. He is being played by actor Laurence Fishburne in the one-man show.

As a reminder, Obama's Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan clerked for Thurgood Marshall. Just last week, CBS News found legal memos from her time as Justice Thurgood Marshall’s law clerk that show her sympathetic to abortion and desegregation, and having sympathies towards alternative marriages.