"My name is Mist Setaung and I was born and raised in Botswana, a place called Maun which is a gateway to the Okavango delta.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

Singer,songwriter and guitarist Zac Brown was born and raised in the state of Georgia.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

Michelle Obama was born and raised on the south side of Chicago, Illinois.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Martin Luther King Jr. was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Michelle Obama was born and raised on the South Side.

VOA: special.2009.01.12

The first lady offered a preview, talking about the city where she was born and raised.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

We are so proud!" Justice Sotomayor was born and raised in this neighborhood, and her immigrant mother graduated from Hostos with a nursing degree in 1973, thus paving the way for her children's own success.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

"I was born and raised in Baltimore, where my father was mayor, and we were raised in a family that was devoutly Catholic, deeply patriotic, extremely proud of our Italian heritage, extremely proud of that, and in our case,staunchly Democratic."

VOA: standard.2010.05.11