Victoria Johnson (R) attends a public meeting along with her daughter Dawn Stephens (L) and granddaughters Anaya (2nd R) and Alyssa Stephens, where a moment of silence was held in memory of former South African President Nelson Mandela at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Michigan Dec 5, 2013. South African anti-apartheid hero Mandela died aged 95 at his Johannesburg home on Thursday after a prolonged lung infection, plunging his nation and the world into mourning for a man hailed by global leaders as a moral giant. [Photo/Agencies]

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