On July 18, Duluth honored Nelson Mandela on what would have been his 100th birthday. Mandela was a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, a humanitarian, and the first democratically-elected President of South Africa.
Duluthians gathered at Duluth's City Hall and heard from local speakers including Mayor Larson but also UMD professor Helen Mongan - Rallis, who delivered a stirring speech that touched on her experiences as a white South African in the '60s and '70s and being exiled from her homeland in the 1980s. The Apartheid system was allowed to continue in South Africa, she said, because white South Africans like herself were complacent. JP Renquist reports:
https://youtu.be/4JL-Bw0ajvc" target="_blank">Full Video of Speakers
