On this day in 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from prison after 27 years behind bars; CBS News' Bob Simon was there President Obama addressed the massive crowd of mourners assembled to honor ...

Zoleka Mandela, the granddaughter of late South African leader Nelson Mandela who followed “in her grandfather’s footsteps,” has died after an 11-year battle with cancer that spread ...

It's Nelson Mandela International Day, a day of service celebrated on July 18, Mandela's birthday. Mandela, the former president of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, died at 95 on Dec ...

Nelson Mandela, a worldwide symbol of resistance to racism and injustice who spent 27 years in jail for his beliefs and then, without rancor, led South Africa out of apartheid, died Thursday at ...

These are a few lines from the poem "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley, which Nelson Mandela kept on his bare wall in prison. And the lines above, and the poem as a whole are such a beautiful ...

You see, in the mind of Dick Cheney, Nelson Mandela, and those whom he led in the African National Congress, were, indeed, terrorists. In 1986, the United States Congress, finally coming to grips ...

The story of Nelson Mandela’s life is well told. Whether through his autobiography “Long Walk To Freedom,” presidential memoir “Dare Not Linger,” numerous biographies, miles of newsprint ...

Mandela's daughter, grandchildren describe the global leader's private life. Former South African President Nelson Mandela poses with his grandchildren at his home in Qunu, South Africa ...

Nelson Mandela was, quite famously, a fan of European classical music. His two favorite composers were George Frideric Handel and Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky, but he grew up exposed to the country’s ...