Politicians, civil rights leaders, religious leaders and others took to social media to mourn the passing Sunday of South African anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop ...

Though primarily identified with the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, which he supported from the mid-’60s till the ...

In September 1982, when the racist policy of apartheid was still law in South Africa, Bishop Desmond Tutu, one of its best-known and most outspoken opponents, preached and distributed Communion in an ...

African leaders are paying tribute to Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu for his fearless campaign that helped end South Africa's brutal apartheid regime and bring democracy to the country. But many of ...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a pioneer of South Africa’s civil rights struggle, came to Alabama in 2002 and praised U.S. civil rights leaders for inspiring his fight against apartheid. Tutu died Sunday in ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning icon, an uncompromising foe of the country’s past racist policy of apartheid and a modern-day activist for racial justice and ...

CAPE TOWN — Desmond Tutu’s family members gathered at his Cape Town home on Tuesday in preparation for his funeral this weekend as South Africans honored his life. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning ...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu died the day after Christmas at the age of 90. The Nobel Peace laureate was a leader in the movement to overthrow apartheid, South Africa’s brutal system of racial segregation.