Idris Elba, "Idris Elba Presents mi Mandela" (7wallace/Parlophone Records)
Playing Nelson Mandela in 2013's theatrical release, "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," clearly struck a chord...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — He was South Africa's last White president, overshadowed by Nelson Mandela when they plotted the historic transition to a multi-racial democracy...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans marked Nelson Mandela's birthday on Friday with charitable acts in honor of the former president, whose death in December...
Week of July 16-22
July 16
1862—Crusading journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells-Barnett is born in Holly Springs, Miss. Wells-Barnett was a true militant activist....
NEW YORK (AP) — Maya Angelou was gratified, but not surprised by her extraordinary fortune.
"I'm not modest," she told The Associated Press in 2013....
