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• Former president Barack Obama has written extensively about his parents and family, and continues to tell their story in his new memoir A Promised Land.

• His father, Barack Obama Sr., was a successful Kenyan economist, while his mother Ann Dunham was an accomplished American anthropologist.
• Here's what we know about the pair, including how they met while studying at the University of Hawaii in 1960.

"I am the son of a Black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas," former president Barack Obama famously said in a 2008 campaign speech in Philadelphia.

Obama wasn't the first president (nor the last) to have a parent born outside of the United States, but his status as the first bi-racial president and an unconventional childhood—which began in Honolulu, Hawaii, and included time in Seattle, and Indonesia—made his upbringing the subject of much attention.

Per NPR, which excerpted A Singular Woman: