Solidarity house: Some of the 49,000 people who came to see Nelson Mandela at Tiger Stadium June 28, 1990. Credit: Courtesy of the Walter Reuther Library Last week we commemorated the 30th anniversary ...

A stunningly intimate tribute to the life of one of the 20th century’s great global leaders is on display at The Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. Mandela: The Official Exhibition features ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI investigated multiple death threats against Nelson Mandela during his 1990 visit to the United States and relied on an informant for details about the anti-apartheid leader’s ...

The commission created in 2016 to look into ways to commemorate Nelson Mandela’s 1990 visit to Boston has filed its interim report, indicating that it favors an approach similar to the popular Freedom ...

DETROIT (WZZM) -- He'd been behind bars 27 years, a political prisoner of a racist regime in South Africa. Four months after his release, Nelson Mandela came to the U.S. on an eight-city, 11-day tour ...

The world watched as anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela took his first steps of freedom on February 11, 1990 after 27 years behind bars. Waiting outside Victor Verster Prison were his wife Winnie ...

On Feb. 11, 1990, Nelson Mandela was released after 27 years in prison for sedition against South Africa’s white-only Nationalist government. The anti-apartheid leader’s legacy continued to impact and ...

Dec. 5, 2013 — -- intro: Nelson Mandela became South Africa's first democratically elected president in 1994. The following videos highlight some of the memorable moments from the last ...

A.M. HOUR OF GOOD MORNING AMERIC A. FIRST, CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF WCVB WHIT A MOMENT THAT DEFINED US. NELSON MANDELA HELPED LEAD SOUTH AFRICA OUT OF APARTHEID. DO:UG HE WAS THE FIRST BLACK HEAD OF ...

A World Boxing Council championship belt Sugar Ray Leonard gave Nelson Mandela was stolen from the Nelson Mandela National Museum in Soweto, South Africa, eNCA first reported. Leonard gifted Mandela ...

Former South African President Nelson Mandela actively protested apartheid for most of his life, and he is known for being one of the world's most famous political prisoners. His anti-apartheid ...