TREVOR MCDONALD: In the 1940s South Africa was under apartheid rule: the doctrine that white people were somehow superior to Black people. The white police force sometimes tortured and killed the ...

Nelson Mandela walked out of prison as a free man after 27 years, marking a golden moment in history. On this day in 1979, ...

Nelson Mandela was “trying to come to the United ... who spent 27 years in prison before becoming South Africa’s first Black ...

Participants in the annual 27 For Freedom Race, held at the Drakenstein Correctional Centre (formerly Victor Verster Prison), ...

Ruth Simmons talks about how her upbringing and life illustrate determination and the transforming power of education in the Black History month series.

Idris Elba has opened up about spending a night in prison to prepare for his role as Nelson Mandela in the 2013 film, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom. During a recent interview with The Sunday Times, ...

Take a look at the 'rap sheet' of late president Nelson Mandela's grandson ... whose father was the late Magkatho Mandela – has often been called the “black sheep of the family”.

still maintains and embodies the values of peace and democracy which its Founding President so keenly promoted and protected. “Our deepest sympathy and prayers are with the former First Lady ...

Idris Elba says he ‘heard strange noise’s during his night in a South African prison to prepare for his Nelson ... as the first Black president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. Mandela ...