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Desmond Tutu was a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa's struggle against white minority rule

Tutu was a Nobel Peace Prize winner, activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and the retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican cleric whose good humour, inspiring message and conscientious work for civil and human rights made him a revered leader during the struggle to end apartheid in his native South Africa, has died. He was 90.

The buoyant, blunt-spoken clergyman used his pulpit as the first Black bishop of Johannesburg and later Archbishop of Cape Town as well as frequent public demonstrations to galvanize public opinion against racial inequity both at home and globally.

Tutu was a Nobel Peace Prize winner, activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and the retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town.

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 age of 90

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Desmond 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

Iconic activist Desmond Tutu, who tirelessly fought for equality causes in South Africa, has died at age 90

Tutu was a Nobel Peace Prize winner, activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and the retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town.

Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu's compassion and sense of humor, as well as his commitment to justice and processes of peace, were among the many reasons he was an icon, said Bishop Kevin Dowling of Rustenburg. The retired Anglican archbishop of Cape Town -- who in 1984 won the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his efforts to bring about a peaceful transition to a society with equal rights for all -- died in Cape Town Dec. 26 at the age of 90.