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.

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 ...

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… ...

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.

People take photos at Cape Town’s St. Georges Cathedral, where a Wall of Remembrance for South African anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been set up, on Dec. 28, 2021.