Monday, July 19, 2010

Nelson Mandela

At age 92



At the ESPYs


Tracy Morgan with Twilight's Ashley Greene.
Sometimes you make great strides forward... Other times some dumbass drags you down.

Good thing it was the ESPYs and nobody saw it happen. But as 27 year old white South African golfer Louis Oosthuizen, was awarded the claret jug that symbolizes winning the more widely viewed 2010 British Open, he stopped to say happy birthday to Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, his country's first black president and author of the reconciliation that made the RSA's multiracial democracy possible.

A Song In Search of Justice


The BBC documents the evolution of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" from the very roots of Ladysmith Black Mambazo's South African Zulu choral music style to American pop and Broadway theater.
(23 minutes)

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