By HILLEL ITALIE
NEW YORK (AP) — Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres are among the many movie star moderators becoming a member of former first girl Michelle Obama on tour for her upcoming e-book, “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times.”
Other visitors embrace Conan O’Brien, Tracee Ellis Ross, journalists Gayle King and Michele Norris, “Today” present host Hoda Kotb, poet Elizabeth Alexander and advocate Heather McGhee.
“For me, ‘The Light We Carry’ book tour will be about starting important conversations and digging deeper into the questions that all of us are grappling with as we live through uncertain times,” Obama stated in a press release launched Wednesday by her writer, Crown, and the tour’s producer, Live Nation. “I can’t wait to get back on the road and dive into it with such a thoughtful, impressive group of moderators.”
On Wednesday, Crown and Live Nation additionally introduced that Obama has added seven stops to her monthlong, six-city tour, which begins at Washington’s Warner Theatre on Nov. 15, the e-book’s publication date. Additional appearances have been scheduled in Washington, together with Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago and San Francisco.
Some of the moderators, together with Winfrey and Alexander, spoke with Obama when she promoted her 2018 memoir “Becoming.” For the present tour, DeGeneres will probably be on stage for the primary two nights, in Washington, with Perry scheduled to interview her in Atlanta, Letterman in Chicago and Winfrey for the final cease, in Los Angeles’ YouTube Theater on Dec. 13.
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