Commissioner Patricia L. Gatling joined Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and a small group of City leaders in honoring South African civil rights leader Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who was instrumental in ending that country's longstanding racial injustice over a decade ago. During an intimate breakfast event at Gracie Mansion, Mayor Bloomberg recognized the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize recipient's non-violent struggle for equality – uniting black and white South Africans to bring their country out of conflict and crisis. Later that day, Archbishop Tutu joined others in dedicating the International Freedom Center, an institution to be built at Ground Zero. The new International Freedom Center will be an educational tool for the City, nation, and world committed to striving for freedom and equality for all.