Tag: Nelson Mandela

  • Inspired by Arthur Ashe’s bestselling memoir “Days of Grace,” a collection of positive, uplifting stories of seemingly small acts of grace from across the sports world that have helped to bridge cultural and racial divides.

  • Word of Honour: Reclaiming Mandela’s Promise Chace Studios South Africa 2016 Color Running Time: 01:13:00 Kiersten Dunbar Chace, Producer, Director, Editor David Grant, Consultant/Writer In 1997, just prior to his departure from politics, President Nelson Mandela delivered an informal speech to a predominately mixed-race Coloured community in the Western Cape. He reassured them they had nothing…

  • Obama’s Path Was Shaped by Mandela’s Story The New York Times 2013-12-05 Michael D. Shear WASHINGTON — Without Nelson Mandela, there might never have been a President Obama. That is the strong impression conveyed from Mr. Obama, whose political and personal bonds to Mr. Mandela, the former South African president, transcended their single face-to-face meeting,…

  • Obama hails Mandela ‘inspiration’ in South Africa visit BBC News 2013-06-29 US President Barack Obama has praised Nelson Mandela as “an inspiration to the world” while visiting South Africa. The US leader, who was speaking in Pretoria after talks with President Jacob Zuma, does not intend to visit the 94-year-old, who has been critically ill…