During Tuesday's memorial service at South Africa's largest soccer stadium, President Obama delivered a 20-minute eulogy that compared Mandela to Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln and ...

JOHANNESBURG - President Barack Obama's eulogy was for Nelson Mandela, but it laid out for a global audience the work that Obama himself would like to be remembered for: an unending fight against ...

Obama’s eulogy for Nelson Mandela, in a rain-swept stadium in Johannesburg on Tuesday, was a remarkable milestone in his presidency Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

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Idris Elba, left, as Nelson Mandela, and Riaad Moosa, as Ahmed Kathrada, in the film, "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom." With the passing of Nelson Mandela, the sweeping biopic "Mandela: Long Walk to ...

The eulogy, a celebration spoken at death, nonetheless is one of the great art forms of life. In Adlai Stevenson’s eulogy of Eleanor Roosevelt, the two-time Democratic presidential nominee spoke of ...

As I watched President Obama deliver his stirring eulogy for Dr. Nelson Mandela during the former president’s memorial service here in Johannesburg, I was struck by a mélange of competing ...

During a 20-minute eulogy, Obama said Mandela was the "last great liberator of the 20th century." During Tuesday's memorial service at South Africa's largest soccer stadium, President Obama delivered ...