Word: mandelas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shirts read "Mandela: American Tour." The crowd held up colorful flags as if they were pocket lighters, urging on an encore. And the event even had a corporate sponsor...
...there was music, but this crowd of 250,000 had come for a different purpose. They came to witness African National Congress Deputy Nelson Mandela's triumphant arrival in the city he yesterday called his second home. And although Mandela hails from half a world away, the city of Boston treated him as if he were a hometown hero...
...Mandela spoke of the need for a worldwide movement to end apartheid, he praised the city where activists, college students and liberal politicians that spurred the American divestment movement for so many years...
...Mandela's speech came late in the day--two hours behind schedule--after a long afternoon of speeches and song. And while the ANC leader was making stops in Roxbury and at the JFK Library, the crowd at the Esplanade's Hatch Shell slowly grew, sometimes impatiently but always expecting something great...
...waiting, Mandela's words did not disappoint...