In BBC Radio 4’s podcast, History’s Youngest Heroes, Nicola Coughlan shines a light on extraordinary stories of rebellion, risk, and the radical power of youth, looking at young people ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A digital archive documenting former South African President Nelson Mandela’s life has ...

Nelson Mandela was a member of the royal family of the Tembu, a Xhosa-speaking tribe in South Africa. He was given the name Rolihlahla by his people. When he went to school, he was given the ...

Nelson Mandela was a famous leader. A man who went from being a prisoner to a President and became an inspiration to people all over the world! Mandela was born in 1918 in South Africa. Most South ...

In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to ...

During the 1950s Mandela was banned, arrested and imprisoned for challenging apartheid. He was one of the accused in the massive Treason Trial at the end of the decade and, following the 1960 ...

The tennis world is reacting to death of former South African president Nelson Mandela, who passed away Thursday at the age of 95. The news broke just a couple of hours before former pro James ...

Tell us what you think. E-mail comments or questions to the editors at [email protected]. Ever wonder about those strange designations we use throughout Northwestern to identify alumni of the ...

April 2, 1985 – Black-Jewish Freedom Seders, co-sponsored by the Reform movement’s UAHC and the NAACP, honor jailed Soviet and African dissidents, including Natan Sharansky and Nelson Mandela.