Quick search shows it has been “out there”
But the characterizations of Obama’s mother — first as “a white anthropologist from Kansas” and then as “a single mother on food stamps” and “the woman who died of cancer while fighting with her insurance company at the end of her life” — don’t encompass who she was, the unconventional life she led or the influence she had on the future president of the United States, says writer Janny Scott.
http://www.npr.org/2011/05/03/135840068/the-singular-woman-who-raised-barack-obama
Good find, and thanks for pasting that. NPR is blocked on my company firewall...