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Alice Tan Ridley sings in the New York City Subway, Monday, June 21, 2010.

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Opinion: Alice Tan Ridley and the joy of music

NPR's Scott Simon takes a moment to remember Alice Tan Ridley, who busked in the New York City subways and reached the semi-finals of "America's Got Talent."

April 12, 2025
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A photo of Lisa Young Alston

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Lisa Young Alston, daughter of civil rights leader Andrew Young, dies at 67

Lisa Young Alston, daughter of Ambassador Andrew Young, has died at 67.

March 17, 2025
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Nathalie Dupree. (Family of Nathalie Dupree via Dignity Memorial)

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Nathalie Dupree, 85, was Southern culinary icon

Southern culinary icon Nathalie Dupree has died. The celebrated cookbook author and television host’s obituary says she died Monday at her home in North Carolina.

January 16, 2025
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  • Orlando Montoya
Ethel Kennedy, wife of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is shown July 27, 1970.

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Opinion: Remembering Ethel Kennedy

NPR's Scott Simon remarks on the legacy of Ethel Kennedy, widow of Robert F. Kennedy. She died Oct. 10 at the age of 96.

October 12, 2024
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  • Scott Simon
Former Boston Red Sox great Luis Tiant before Game 5 of the American League Championship Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Houston Astros on Oct. 20, 2021, at Fenway Park in Boston.

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Luis Tiant, charismatic Cuban who pitched the Red Sox to the brink of a title, dies at 83

The charismatic Cuban with a horseshoe mustache and mesmerizing windup pitched the Red Sox to the brink of a World Series championship and pitched himself to the doorstep of the Hall of Fame.

October 08, 2024
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Judy and Howie Blatt in 2019.

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Howard Blatt, stroke survivor who co-founded an aphasia support group, died at 88

After a stroke left Howard Blatt unable to speak, he helped create a support group for other people with aphasia, a brain condition that impairs communication. He recently died at age 88.

June 20, 2024
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  • Sacha Pfeiffer
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Henry Kissinger, controversial diplomat and foreign policy scholar, dies at 100

Kissinger's guiding foreign policy principle was that strategic national interests take priority over more idealistic aims, like the promotion of human rights and democracy.

November 30, 2023
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  • Tom Gjelten
The original home of Rosalynn Carter is seen, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023, in Plains, Ga.

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Rosalynn Carter's tiny hometown mourns a global figure who made many contributions at home

Plains, Ga., is mourning the death of the former U.S. first lady and global humanitarian. Lifelong residents and more recent transplants to Plains remembered Rosalynn Carter on Monday as an involved presence around town, despite all that she and former President Jimmy Carter achieved elsewhere. 

November 21, 2023
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In this July 28, 1971 file photo, Daniel Ellsberg, former Defense Department researcher who leaked top-secret Pentagon papers to the press, speaks to an unofficial House panel investigating the significance of the war documents.

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History-making whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has died at 92

Ellsberg's release of what were called the "Pentagon Papers" hastened the end of the Vietnam war, prompted a landmark Supreme Court ruling and contributed to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.

June 16, 2023
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  • Ron Elving
Timothy Keller, an influential New York City pastor, author, and founder of the Gospel Coalition, died at age 72.

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Influential church leader Timothy Keller has died at the age of 72

He was a co-founder of The Gospel Coalition, a group concerned that evangelical Christianity had become too politicized.

May 20, 2023
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  • Jason DeRose
Bats have a seven-octave vocal range. Researchers say, to make their low-frequency calls, bats use the same trick as throat singers and death metal growlers.

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Death metal singers have a vocal counterpart ... in bats

Bats and death metal singers have more in common than a love of the dark. A new study has found that some of bats' lower frequency calls appear to use a technique similar to death metal growling.

December 05, 2022
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  • Mia Venkat
Renee Pringle, pictured on a reporting trip to Paris in early 1989 (she can be seen hoisting reporter Renee Montagne up in the photo at right). The longtime NPR audio engineer died on Oct. 16.

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Remembering NPR's Renee Pringle, a pioneering audio engineer, friend and fashionista

Pringle helped shape and safeguard the sound of NPR for more than four decades. Colleagues are remembering her prolific portfolio, technical expertise, generosity, honesty and sense of style.

October 20, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Jim "Pee Wee" Martin is shown at age 100 in military uniform.

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WWII veteran and 'Toccoa Original' dies at age 101

One of the country's first paratroopers, he jumped into Normandy on D-Day and was still jumping out of planes at age 99.

September 21, 2022
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  • Orlando Montoya
Randy Weaver, the object of the Ruby Ridge siege, visits with the media at the main FBI roadblock outside the Freemen compound in Montana on April 27, 1996. Weaver, who served as a spark for the growth of anti-government extremists, has died at the age of 74.

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Randy Weaver, participant in Ruby Ridge standoff, dies at 74

A patriarch of a family that was involved in an 11-day Idaho standoff with federal agents 30 years ago has died.

May 12, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
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A 96-year-old Holocaust survivor was killed when Russian forces shelled his home

Boris Romantschenko was killed last week in a Russian attack in Kharkiv. He survived four concentration camps and later "campaigned intensively for the memory of the Nazi crimes."

March 21, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
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