The Obama Family in September '08 Essence

One of my favorite cover stories of the Obama family this year was the September 2008 Essence magazine story on the family. The pictures they took were vibrant and colorful, and sometimes it's just good to see positive stories profiled when so much of the news we hear these days is negative or mindless gossip. It's hard to fake being a real close-knit family with good family values, so it seems to me that the Obama's are the real deal when it comes to raising their family. Picture credits to blackcelebkids.com. Here is the word from Essence explaining how they finally got the entire Obama family as the September cover story.

The September issue of Essence magazine features an interview with Sen. Barack Obama and his family inside their Chicago home.

Essence editor-in-chief Angela Burt-Murray said it took a year for the magazine to gain access to the Obama's Illinois home for an intimate interview with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, his wife, Michelle, and their daughters, Sasha and Malia.

Burt-Murray talked Thursday with CNN "American Morning" anchor Kiran Chetry about the interview and the Obama family.

Chetry: You are the first African-American media outlet to get this inside look. Did your team get a chance to see the real Obamas?

Burt-Murray: I think we did. We went to their home on the South Side of Chicago and it was wonderful to see them as a family interacting with each other, and see the girls skipping around the house, just acting like it's a normal, everyday occurrence to have a camera crew in their home and Secret Service at different points throughout the house and around the yard. But it didn't really seem to impact the girls in any way.

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