October 20, 2014 - The Huffington Post - "Melvina's Descendants, Michelle Obama's Cousins" by Megan Smolenyak
June 19, 2012 - The Huffington Post - "Does Accuracy in History Matter? The Case of 'American Tapestry' and Michelle Obama's Ancestors" by Megan Smolenyak
May 31, 2012 - The Huffington Post - "Michelle Obama's Ancestors: 'American Tapestry' Has Holes in It" by Megan Smolenyak
April 15, 2012 - The Huffington Post - "Ancestors of Michelle Obama in the 1940 Census" by Megan Smolenyak
February 29, 2012 - The Huffington Post - "Michelle Obama's Ancestors: The First Lady's Multicultural, Great Migration Past (Video)" (Part 8) by Megan Smolenyak
February 24, 2012 - The Huffington Post - "Michelle Obama's Ancestors: Purnell Shields" (Part 7) by Megan Smolenyak
February 21, 2012 - The Huffington Post - "Michelle Obama's Ancestors: Rebecca Jumper (aka Coleman)" (Part 6) by Megan Smolenyak
February 14, 2012 - The Huffington Post - "Michelle Obama's Ancestors: Fraser Robinson" (Part 5) by Megan Smolenyak
February 8, 2012 - The Huffington Post - "Michelle Obama's Ancestors: LaVaughn Johnson" (Part 4) by Megan Smolenyak
February 3, 2012 - The Huffington Post - "Michelle Obama's Ancestors: The Great Mixing" (Part 3) by Megan Smolenyak
February 1, 2012 - The Huffington Post - "Michelle Obama's Ancestors: The Great Migration" (Part 2) by Megan Smolenyak
January 30, 2012 - The Huffington Post - "Michelle Obama's Ancestors: Chicago Beginnings" (Part 1) by Megan Smolenyak
February 24, 2022 - Upworthy.com - "Melvinia Shields was a slave. Five generations later, her direct descendant became nation's first Black First Lady." by Sethuraman S
November 1, 2021 - Snopes - "Is This a Monument to Michelle Obama’s Former Slave Ancestor?" by Nur Ibrahim
June 26, 2013 - Modern Ghana - "Obamas to confront ancestry on Senegal slave island" by Agence France Presse
June 16, 2013 - RTE Radio - "With Michelle Obama and her daughters visiting these shores, genealogist Megan Smolenyak tells us about tracing Michelle (and Barack)'s roots" with Marian Finucane
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June 12, 2013 - Independent.ie - "Obama girls booked in for eye-opening visit to the first family's 'homeland'" by Bette Brown
June 11, 2013 - International Business Times - "Obama Monument Dedicated To First Lady's Ancestor Toppled, Georgia Police Looking For Vandals" by Zoe Mintz
January 10, 2013 - Chicago Tribune - "Obama to use family Bible during swearing-in" by Katherine Skiba