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Desmond Tutu, South African equality activist, dies at 90

By Associated Press

Dec. 26, 2021

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Retired Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa gestures during the opening concert for the soccer World Cup at Orlando stadium in Soweto, South Africa, on June 10, 2010. Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced Sunday. He was 90.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II emerges from St. George's Cathedral with Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the end of a service to commemorate Human Rights Day in Cape Town on March 21, 1995.
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An electronic screen shows South Africa's Keshav Maharaj at the team's line up during a minute of silence in memory of Desmond Tutu ahead of a test cricket match between South Africa and India in Pretoria, South Africa, on Sunday.
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Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa speaks to a crowd at New York's City Hall on May 28, 1986, to drum up support for a rally on June 14 for sanctions against South Africa and apartheid.
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Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa displays an "End Apartheid" T-shirt at New York's City Hall on May 27, 1986.
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Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Desmond Tutu, center, jogs along a whites only beach at the Strand on Sept. 30, 1989, with a crowd of supporters near Cape Town as church organizations continued their campaign of defiance against apartheid laws.
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President Barack Obama presents a 2009 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Desmond Tutu on Aug. 12, 2009.
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South African Bishop Desmond Tutu waves during a speech against apartheid on Jan. 8, 1986, outside the South African Embassy in Washington.
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South African Bishop Desmond Tutu receives the Martin Luther King Jr. Peace Prize from Coretta Scott King, left, and Christine King Farris, King's sister, center, during an ecumenical service at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta on Jan. 20, 1986. Tutu's daughter Mpho, right, looks on during the ceremony.
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South African Bishop Desmond Tutu gestures during remarks denouncing his country's apartheid policy of racial separation in New Orleans on Sept. 7, 1982.
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Pope John Paul II and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu in the Vatican City on May 27, 1980.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, right, leads the way for Nelson and Winnie Mandela into the garden at his Cape Town residence on Feb. 12, 1990.
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Retiring Archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu, right, greets President Nelson Mandela at a service in Cape Town on June 23, 1996, held to celebrate the end of Tutu's tenure as leader of the Anglican Church in South Africa.
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Anglican Archbishop Emeritus, Desmond Tutu, right, with his wife Leah, left, attend a church service in St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, on Oct. 7 as Tutu celebrated his 90th birthday.

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