Remembering the Queen of Soul

At the time, I was on attachment at the Sun Newspapers in Cleveland, but also serving as a fellow at Cleveland State University. The others were students at the local private school, Case Western Reserve University.

Mandela had just been released from prison earlier that year and was on a 12-day national tour of the United States of America to thank the people of that country for supporting sanctions against the South African apartheid regime, but also to raise funds.