Newswire: Desmond Tutu, South African equality activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dead at 90

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Newswire: Desmond Tutu, South African equality activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dead at 90

By: Associated Press 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 Ramaphosa announced Sunday. He was 90.An uncompromising foe of apartheid — South Africa's brutal regime of oppression against the Black majority — Tutu worked […]

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