South Africa's first Black president, Nelson Mandela, died on Dec. 5, 2013. Revisit the speeches that made Mandela the most prominent figure of... A legacy in speeches: Remembering Nelson Mandela 10 ...

The secretary general of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, spoke at the memorial for former South African president Nelson Mandela. Here is a transcript of his remarks. Thanks. President of South ...

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Nelson Mandela guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to multi-racial democracy, as an icon of peace and reconciliation who came to embody the struggle for justice ...

The speaker, one of the world's most recognizable black leaders, was addressing a joint session of the U.S. Congress when he quoted America's top civil rights leader. "Free at last, free at last, ...

Nelson Mandela was born on July 18, 1918, in what was then known as the Union of South Africa, a dominion of the British Empire. Although the majority of the country’s inhabitants were Black, they ...