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Anti-apartheid icon Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies at 90

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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 segment aired on December 27, 2021.

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