(US News and World Report) — On Feb. 10, 2007, Sen. Barack Obama stood in the sunlight on the steps of the Illinois Old State Capitol to announce his candidacy for president. While commentators focused on the son of a white mother and African father potentially ascending to the nation’s highest office, his wife, Michelle, the great-great granddaughter of a slave, perhaps offered just as remarkable a story.
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