On an unremarkable day, a most remarkable interview would reroute the trajectory of my life. A recent Notre Dame graduate in 1985, my first job as a journalist at the local NBC television station was ...

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Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a South African activist and an opponent of apartheid during the 1980s, continues to write and lecture on campaigns to fight poverty, AIDS, homophobia and racism. His newest ...

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 ...

Desmond Tutu, the black South African Anglican archbishop and anti-apartheid activist, died Sunday at the age of 90. The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation said that Tutu had passed away from ...

In a season when we have lost so many Black leaders, Archbishop Desmond Tutu has left us in body at age 90 but remains with us in spirit as an ancestor. Fondly known as the “Arch,” Tutu was a ...

Desmond Mpilo Tutu, South African Anglican Archbishop and theologian, who was born October 7, 1931. He died on December 26, 2021. In this tribute, the Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of Africa Today ...

South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, known for work in post-apartheid South Africa, has spent much of his life getting people to look at the world in a different way. To throw away old categories, ...