Tuesday's keynote speaker, Julian Castro, paid tribute to his late grandmother Victoria and his mother, Rosie, with a memorable line. "My mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, ...

Peter Obi, whose 2023 campaign for Nigerian president ignited a powerful political movement led by hundreds of thousands of young people, had high praise for Sacramento State’s innovative student ...

The joint statement with his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng said Dunham died peacefully late Sunday night after a battle with cancer. They said: "She was the cornerstone of our family, and a woman of ...

Honolulu Theatre for Youth and the Hawai’i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts have revealed the winner of the 2025 Poetry Out Loud Hawai’i Final. Congratulations go to Koaliʻi Keawe-Asuega, a ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Barack Obama's 85-year-old grandmother broke her hip recently and is "gravely ill," her brother said today. Madelyn Payne Dunham, who helped to raise Obama, "has not been well ...

Dunham, who played a large role in raising Barack Obama, died Monday. She was 86. Although Dunham had been too ill to appear on the campaign trail... Madelyn Payne Dunham, the maternal grandmother of ...

A few years before her death, Barack Obama's mother completed her doctoral dissertation. Nearly two decades later, S. Ann Dunham's fieldwork has been published — a fulfillment of her dream, courtesy ...

*Back in 2008, Barack Obama made history as the USA’s 44th President, becoming the first African American to lead the nation. After Barack Obama‘s eight years as president, it might seem like we know ...

"The First Day of Peace" by Todd Shuster with Maya Soetoro-Ng, illustrated by Tatiana Gardel (Candlewick Press, Aug. 8), 4-8 years, 32 pages, $18.99 hardcover. Peace is an abstract concept that seems ...

Aug. 6—Two rival communities come ­together to combat environmental disaster in a new children's book co-authored by Hawaii's Maya Soetoro-Ng, a well-known peace ­activist and academic. Two rival ...