NEW YORK - Former President Barack Obama reveals in an upcoming podcast with rocker Bruce Springsteen that he chose a career of public service in part due to his mother, an acknowledgement that lands in the middle of Women’s History Month. “My mom was a little bit of a free thinker,” Obama says in Monday’s episode of Spotify’s “Renegades: Born in the USA.” The Associated Press was granted early access to a snippet. Obama’s mother, Ann Dunham, was an anthropologist who worked to help improve the lives of the poor in Indonesia. Martin Luther King Jr. were trying “to make the world better,” Obama says. But it has blossomed into deeper conversations since he left office, Obama said in the first episode.

Source: thestar March 12, 2021 15:00 UTC