Discover the inspiring life of Nelson Mandela, today’s Personality of the Day. Known worldwide for leading South Africa’s ...

Nelson Mandela was a South African revolutionary political figure and activist. Universally praised for publicly spearheading opposition to apartheid, he became the country's first democratically ...

The problem with a film biography of someone like Nelson Mandela (was there anyone like Nelson Mandela?) is the self-imposed tiptoeing required in the Great Man school of moviemaking. The triumphs ...

Farai Chideya talks with Mac Maharaj, who served 12 years in prison with Nelson Mandela. Maharaj is one of two editorial consultants on the new book Mandela — The Authorized Portrait and is also a ...

The biography-in-comics covers Mandela’s early life and teen years; his rise through the ranks of the African National Congress; his courageous role in the destruction of South Africa’s system of ...

Anthony Sampson, 78, a British journalist and biographer of former South African President Nelson Mandela, died Saturday at his home in Wiltshire, England, of unspecified causes. Most recently a ...

Delivering songs demanding freedom not only for the characters but the whole country under apartheid, the impassioned cast of the new musical “Mandela” (now premiering at the Young Vic in London) ...

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, and philanthropist, who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black ...