A newly released biography of US President Barack Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham (1942-1995), is a tribute to mothers who expose their children to different cultures and offer them the best education possible. The book, A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother by Pulitzer-winning journalist Janny Scott, is an incredibly rich, thoroughly researched, and riveting account of Ann’s life and lineage. It shows that Obama inherited more than his mother’s physical features: the long chin, toothy smile, and the distinctive tilt of the head. Mother’s faith She gave birth to Obama as a teenage girl in 1961,...