Five Generations

Is this simply newsworthy because she is African American? Let's be honest the same connection to slavery's not so distant past could have been drawn with any past US first ladies- be it as a descendant of slave owners or one of slaves. The truth is that the history of slavery is not as black and white as portrayed.

Newsy.com covers the many perspectives.
http://www.newsy.com/videos/michelle_obama_s_slave_roots