Peace activist and professor Maya Soetoro-Ng addressed hundreds of students at Sacramento State on Friday morning, displaying an eloquence reminiscent of her older brother, President Barack Obama.

Obama and Soetoro-Ng (pronounced so-TOE-row-ing) are the children of Stanley Ann Dunham, a white woman with Kansas roots. Obama's father was black; his sister's was Indonesian.

A lot of people ask Maya Soetoro-Ng if it's unreal to watch her brother run for president. It's not. "Barack has always been larger than life," Soetoro-Ng, 37, says of her older sibling, U.S. Sen ...

NEW YORK - Above a rooftop in Jakarta or the Indus River in Pakistan, the moon looms large in the childhood memories of Maya Soetoro-Ng, but President Obama's little sister hadn't realized how ...

Soetoro-Ng also provides the president with a connection to their mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, who was married to Barack Obama Sr. from 1961 to 1964. In 1965, while living in Indonesia, she married ...

Kids' books: Maya Soetoro-Ng's " Ladder to the Moon" tells the story of a girl's dream visit to her grandmother. The author is President Barack Obama's sister.

Growing up in Indonesia, Maya Soetoro-Ng often felt too American. Although she adored her native land’s traditional gamelan music and shadow puppets, spiced cuisine and Hindu epics, her manner ...

Maya Soetoro-Ng, debuting Saturday as an enthusiastic campaigner for brother Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record), recalled that he could be “bossy” but was never mean to his little sister ...

Soetoro-Ng says her mother lived in 13 places around the world Dunham, who divorced Obama’s father and years later Soetoro-Ng’s father, died at age 53 of ovarian and uterine cancer before the ...

Above a rooftop in Jakarta or the Indus River in Pakistan, the moon looms large in the childhood memories of Maya Soetoro-Ng, but President Obama’s little sister hadn’t realized how important ...

Maya Soetoro-Ng, President Barack Obama's younger half-sister, is writing a children's book that will pay homage to their mother's "tradition of storytelling." Here she greets Obama campaign ...