Reed Johnson –

The life story of <a href=" http://www.latimes.com/world/mandela/"> Nelson Mandela </a> - a powerful tale of a charismatic lawyer and human rights activist working to dismantle apartheid, only to land in prison for 27 years and ultimately become country's first democratically elected president - has been told time and time again. Most recently, British star Idris Elba portrays the anti-apartheid figure on screen. Click through to see a sampling of actors who've depicted the revolutionary in film.
By Christy Khoshaba

Nelson Mandela inspired great music around the world

June 18, 2018 at 3:28 p.m.

On "Graceland," his 1986 Grammy Award-winning album, Paul Simon sang a secular lullaby that could've been addressed to the oppressed black multitudes of apartheid South Africa and their moral leader,...

Belarus Free Theatre explores oppression through the prism of sex

June 18, 2018 at 8:15 p.m.

The sex lives of modern cities — Berlin in the 1920s, New York or San Francisco in the 1970s — tend to be characterized in terms of underground cabarets and...

Cafe Tacuba fetes its 20 amazing years

August 22, 2021 at 8:51 a.m.

Like the Fab Four who started playing the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England, certain rock acts have been linked inextricably with certain cities. For the last 20 years, the definitive...

In Mexico, floods blamed on climate of corruption

August 21, 2021 at 2:20 p.m.

While many people in this rainy, low-lying, tropical city regard last week's catastrophic flood as an act of God or fate, others see it as a human-made disaster that could...

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