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NORFOLK, Va. — The grandson of legendary civil rights leader and Nobel Prize winner Nelson Mandela is coming to Norfolk State University. The university said Ndaba Mandela will speak on Wednesday, Jan ...

Ahead of this year's Sundance Film Festival, where director Antoine Fuqua will be premiering his new Nelson Mandela documentary, Troublemaker, Collider's Steve Weintraub had the opportunity to talk ...

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 ...

South Africans go to the polls on Wednesday, and the country is facing a turning point. The ANC, the African National Congress, has been in power for the last 30 years, ever since Nelson Mandela took ...

West German officials warn that East Germany faces imminent economic and political collapse, with advisers to Chancellor Helmut Kohl saying the scale of the crisis “cannot be exaggerated” and that the ...

On June 28, 1990, Nelson Mandela visited Detroit and spoke to a massive crowd at Tiger Stadium, just months after being freed from prison in South Africa. Mandela was greeted by thousands in the city ...

On the centennial of Nelson Mandela's birth, he is remembered as a symbol of peace—but he was on the U.S. terror watch list ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The Norfolk State University is kicking off its celebration of Black History Month by hosting the grandson of Nelson Mandela on Jan. 31. Ndaba Nelson is the co-founder and ...

Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa whose revolutionary politics and revolution in humanitarianism gave rise to his legend as the embodiment of peace on Earth and to the fall of ...