1954-1957 - Teaches school, and resigns in protest of government restrictions on education for black children. 1961 - Is ordained an Anglican priest. 1975 - Becomes the first black appointed Anglican ...

There are times in my life—in many lives—when multiple identities come into play. I was born in Due West, South Carolina, during Jim Crow, and was what was known in some quarters as a P.K., a preacher ...

Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu was remembered at a state funeral Saturday for his Nobel Peace Prize-earning role in ending South Africa's apartheid regime of racial oppression and for ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africans from all corners of retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu's "rainbow nation" filed past his plain pine casket by the hundreds on Friday to pay their respects to his ...

Across the packed room, Archbishop Desmond Tutu appealed to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and begged her to admit that “things went horribly wrong" during the wild 1980s when her personal group of ...

Tributes and words of remeberance have been pouring in from all across the globe from world leaders following the death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Former President Barack Obama shared a tribute of ...

Archbishop Desmond Tutu died today in Cape Town, South Africa. He was 90 years old. Tutu was first diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997 and had been hospitalized several times in recent years. The ...

The process is the same as that which occurs naturally when a body is buried, though at an accelerated rate Digital News Writer, PEOPLE Human rights activist and anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond ...

Mourners flocked to St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town on Thursday to pay their respects to anti-apartheid hero Archbishop Desmond Tutu as he lay in state in a simple pine coffin. The coffin was the ...

The casket containing the body of Archbishop Desmond Tutu arrives at St Georges cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa on Dec. 30, 2021. REUTERS CAPE TOWN – The body of South Africa’s anti-apartheid ...

John Hope Franklin on Archbishop Tutu: "Well, I was certain that I would have a lot to learn from Archbishop Tutu. I was very curious about the experiences that South Africa had had in apartheid and ...