Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in what was then known as the Union of South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire. Although the majority of the country’s inhabitants were Black, they ...

'Mandela and the General' is written by the author behind the Nelson Mandela biopic 'Invictus'. By Graeme McMillan In 1994, Nelson Mandela held a series of secret meetings with the most unlikely of ...

As a Times correspondent in South Africa during the final violent spasms of the apartheid regime and the jubilant election of the country’s first black president in 1994, I noticed something odd about ...

On this day in 1990, Nelson Mandela, the leader of the movement to end apartheid in South Africa, was released from prison after 27 years. Born in 1918, Mandela joined the African National Congress, ...

Obama's speech on Mandela's centennial is part of the long history of overlap in the fights for racial justice in the U.S. and South Africa When Barack Obama delivers the 16th Nelson Mandela Annual ...

SKOKIE (WLS) -- Nelson Mandela was released from prison 31 years ago, this month. He had spent 27 years behind bars, most of them in a seven-by-eight-foot cell. Today, a new exhibit about Mandela is ...

Famous Quotes By Nelson Mandela: There are political leaders and then there are those who manage to alter the world's ...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is one of the most revered — and controversial — women in South African history. In a new documentary her granddaughters examine the liberation icon in all her complexity.

On NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday morning, MSNBC host Al Sharpton warned against “sugarcoating” America’s ambivalent history with Nelson Mandela, and pushed back against another panelist who argued that ...

February 11, 1990, is a date that the world will never forget. On this Sunday afternoon, after 27 years, Nelson Mandela walked out of Victor Verster Prison in South Africa. Nelson Mandela was a leader ...