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Anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies at 90

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who won the Nobel Prize for his long struggle to free South Africa from the racist policies of its apartheid-era government, has died in Cape Town. He was 90.

NPR’s Ofeibea Quist-Arcton has a remembrance of Archbishop Tutu’s life.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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