Black Girls Guide: How to Be Like Michelle Obama

Black Girls Guide: How to Be Like Michelle Obama

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By Angela D. Coleman ’92

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(Sisterhood Agenda Enterprises, VI) This book is the first in the new Black Girls Guide series, as a kind of “how-to” dedicated to Black girls and their self-development. This first installment uses Michelle Obama as a role model. Each chapter includes a “What You Can Do” section to give specific tips to help girls realize success in their own lives. Angela Coleman is the founder of Sisterhood Agenda, a global agency for the empowerment of women and girls of African descent. She is an Ashoka Fellow, recognized for the national and global scale of her work.

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