Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died following a bout with cancer, Obama and his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, said Monday. She was 86. At a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, Monday night ...

Maya Soetoro-Ng, in 1970. However, their family dynamic grew strained, partly due to Soetoro's influence on young Obama. His cold-blooded worldview conflicted with Dunham's idealistic outlook ...

Obama does have connections to Asia and Asian culture. His half-sister is Maya Soetoro-Ng, who is part-Indonesian. Her husband is Konrad Ng, a Chinese Canadian. My mother was telling me that some ...