ARABLOUEI: Society was completely segregated. If you were Black, colored or Indian, you needed a passbook to travel into any white area, and there was a strict censorship of the media.

Nelson Mandela and his then-wife Winnie raise clenched fists upon his release from prison in Cape Town, South Africa on February 11, 1990. The ANC leader had served over 27 years in detention.

South Africa's first Black president, Nelson Mandela, died on Dec. 5, 2013. Revisit the speeches that made Mandela the most prominent figure of the anti-apartheid movement.

Nelson Mandela is gone now, and I think about my own work here in America, of our first black president, Barack Obama, of how much race relations have changed in my nation because of sports just ...

Nelson Mandela’s grandson Mandla Mandela, center, with Hamas official Basem Naim, center right, during a march to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the death of former South African president ...

Mandela was released from prison on Sunday, Feb. 11, 1990. He voted for the first time in his life on April 27, 1994, and went on to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

South Africa's first Black president, Nelson Mandela, died on Dec. 5, 2013. Revisit the speeches that made Mandela the most prominent figure of the anti-apartheid movement.

Nelson Mandela's party could lose its majority in South Africa Johannesburg — On April 27, 1994, Black and White South Africans voted side by side for a new government for the first time in the ...

Jan Christiaan Smuts (1870-1950) and Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (1918-2013) belonged to and were shaped by two different epochs in South Africa, yet left an indelible mark on its history.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela waves to the crowd at Soccer City stadium during the closing ceremony for the 2010 World Cup in Johannesburg, in this July 11, 2010 file photo.

The CIA’s role in the 1962 capture of Nelson Mandela remains one of the clearest examples of this alliance between the U.S. and Afrikaner white supremacists.