South African Bishop Desmond Tutu waves during a speech against apartheid, to a crowd of demonstrators, on Jan. 8, 1986, outside the South African Embassy in Washington.

Credit: AP/Dennis Cook South African Bishop Desmond Tutu waves during a speech against apartheid, to a crowd of demonstrators, on Jan. 8, 1986, outside the South African Embassy in Washington.

Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning racial justice and LGBTQ rights activist from South Africa, died Sunday. He was 90. South African Bishop Desmond Tutu receives the Martin Luther King Jr ...

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, in Atlanta, Georgia on January ...

We just lost another great human being – Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He lived to be 90 years old, and he accomplished miracles in his lifetime. A champion of human rights, he also had the capa… ...

Bishop Desmond Tutu: A Life in Photos Short in stature, the antiapartheid activist was a towering figure in South African politics Dec. 26, 2021 3:33 am ET Share Text ...

The bishop said Tutu, who won the Nobel Prize in 1984 for his opposition to the brutal apartheid policy, was “a prophet who knew that he had to pray and at the same time fight for freedom.

Rev. Gene Robinson, who in 2003 became the U.S. Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop, remembers how Desmond Tutu came to his defense.

South Africa's president says Desmond Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and the retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died at the ...