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 ...

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 ...

When Nelson Mandela died in 2013, news headlines called him “the Lincoln of Africa.” It is little wonder that modern ...

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 ...

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 ...

There's a whole lot of American history to be celebrated in February — Black History Month — alone. Established in 1926 by Carter G. Woodson and Jesse E. Moorland of the Association for the Study of ...

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 ...