Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, has died at 90. An uncompromising foe of apartheid, Tutu worked tirelessly, though non-violently, for its downfall.http://apne.ws/1kD8IAC
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Tutu was one of the most prominent Black leaders able to speak out against abuses when South Africa was gripped by anti-apartheid violence and a state of emergency that gave police and military sweeping powers in the 1980s.http://apne.ws/Wzm1sKA
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Reactions to Tutu’s death have come in from around the world.http://apne.ws/L1ZAKUr
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Former U.S. President Barack Obama called Desmond Tutu “a mentor, a friend, and a moral compass for me and so many others.” Tutu is being lauded around the world after his death at age 90.http://apne.ws/ojNhRdC
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Desmond Tutu used his pulpit as the first Black bishop of Johannesburg and later as the Archbishop of Cape Town to galvanize public opinion against racial inequality. Here’s a timeline of his life committed to equality.http://apne.ws/uPO1cRH
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Desmond Mpilo Tutu
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Lies never live forever they die when a Edson die but the truth speaks even after your death. Desmond Tutu sold on his people to give amnesty to jailed prisoners who were already arrested for crimes they commuted against black people of South Africahttps://twitter.com/Womensdayclub/status/1475385287417245699 …
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