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Centrist politician Joe Lieberman, who became the first Jewish American candidate on a major party presidential ticket, died Wednesday in New York City due to complications from a fall.
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The great American sculptor died on Tuesday at his home in New York on the North Fork of Long Island. He was 85.
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Morning Edition remembers Martin Greenfield, who learned to sew while imprisoned in Auschwitz, and went on to make suits for celebrities, presidents and star athletes. He has died at the age of 95.
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Matthew Urango, the singer-songwriter and activist known as Cola Boyy, was born with spina bifida. The musician who made crowds dance with his 1970s-influenced disco pop has died at the age of 34.
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Walsh died from cardiac arrest on Tuesday at a hospital in St. Albans, Vermont, his longtime manager Sandy Joseph said.
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Johnson studied with Ansel Adams in the 1940s and became known as one of the foremost photographers of San Francisco's Black urban culture.
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Negishi was in his 40s when he came up with the idea of prototyping a mass-produced, coin-operated karaoke machine, branded "Sparko Box" in 1967.
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Whitworth, who died March 8, worked at The New Yorker from 1966 to 1980, as both a writer and editor, and later served as editor-in-chief of The Atlantic Monthly. Originally broadcast in 2001.
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An entire industry wouldn't exist without him, yet few know his name. In his songs, Knott challenged the faithful to examine their faults and hypocrisies.
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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly remembers the life of civil rights leader David Mixner with his friend and mentee, Brian Sims.
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"More than anything, I believe he would want others to know they are capable of great things," Alexander's friend Christopher Ulmer told NPR.
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David E. Harris became the first Black pilot to fly for a commercial airline when American Airlines hired him in 1964. Announcing Capt. Harris' death, American's CEO called him a "trailblazer."