released Aug. 6.“These are not fulfilling times, spiritually,” she continued. "Not just because of the quarantine, but because of the racial strife, and just seeing this administration, watching the hypocrisy of it, day in and day out, is dispiriting."In this file image taken April 11, 2019, Michelle Obama holds a conversation with Phoebe Robinson about her book "Becoming" at Oslo Spektrum in Oslo, Norway. (Photo by Per Ole Hagen/Redferns) In the conversation with journalist and friend Michele Norris, the former co-host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” Obama said the mounting stories of Black people being killed or “dehumanized” have added to her despondency."I don't think I'm unusual, in that," Obama said.