How True Is ‘Southside with You?’: Fact-Checking Barack and Michelle Obama’s Romantic First Date
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Writer-director Richard Tanne’s Linklater-esque romantic drama hits theaters Aug. 26. But how accurately does it depict the moment the Obamas began to fall in love?
In the summer of 1989, future history books will teach the children of the world, 25-year-old Chicago lawyer Michelle Robinson reluctantly went on a non-date-date with a cute Harvard Law student named Barack Obama that changed America.