Brutus used sports to fight apartheid

Date of Release: December 31, 2009 (Special to ESPN.com)
by Richard Lapchick
Dennis Brutus died in his sleep Saturday in Cape Town, South Africa, at age 85. Between the early 1960s and the end of apartheid in South Africa, the architects of that most racist regime rarely slept, due to the force of major activists such as Brutus. More…