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News Articles: Desmond Tutu

Mary Robinson (center) participates in a fireside chat with Carter Center CEP Paige Alexander (right) and Carter Center Chief Development Officer Nicole Kruse at the Carter Center in Atlanta on March 3, 2025.

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'Hope is action': Former Irish president Mary Robinson screens new documentary at Carter Center

Ahead of International Women's Day, Mrs. Robinson explores leadership on the global stage and the importance of maintaining hope in the push for human rights and environmental initiatives.

March 07, 2025
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  • Kristi York Wooten
Mpho Tutu, sits with the coffin of her father, Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, during his funeral at the St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, on Saturday.

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At his funeral, Tutu is remembered for helping end apartheid and championing rights

"Archbishop Desmond Tutu has been our moral compass and national conscience," South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a eulogy at Tutu's state funeral on Saturday.

January 01, 2022
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People read cards left with flowers in memory of Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu at the St. George's Cathedral.

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South Africans line up to pay their last respects to Desmond Tutu

South Africans from all corners of retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu's "rainbow nation" filed past his pine casket in Cape Town. The viewing line at St. George's Cathedral stretched for nearly a mile.

December 31, 2021
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Desmond Tutu, an icon who helped end apartheid in South Africa, dies at 90

The Nobel Peace laureate and archbishop emeritus campaigned against a system he called evil and, after apartheid, helped the nation heal as head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

December 26, 2021
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  • Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
A woman sweeps outside the house where Desmond Tutu lived in Soweto, South Africa. Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died.

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World leaders mourn the death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu

The archbishop is being remembered around the world for his commitment to equality and justice and his "impish" sense of humor.

December 26, 2021
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  • Deepa Shivaram
In 1986, South African activist, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu receives the Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize for his commitment and role during the struggle against apartheid, from Coretta Scott King (left), her daughter Christine King Farris (rear) and Tutu's daughter Nontombi Naomi Tutu.

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Desmond Tutu's laugh was contagious. His fight for freedom was deadly serious

Desmond Tutu will be remembered for helping end apartheid. But also for his memorable laugh, an infectious, cackling howl employed in the service of easing tensions in a very tense nation.

December 26, 2021
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  • Greg Myre
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, anti-apartheid activist and wife of Nelson Mandela, died Monday in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was 81.

South Africans Remember Winnie Madikizela-Mandela For Anti-Apartheid Activism

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a leader in South Africa's anti-apartheid movement and ex-wife of the late Nelson Mandela, died Monday. She was 81. On Second...

April 06, 2018
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