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Frazer Harrison/Getty ImagesThe actor and Grammy Award winner died in a drowning accident Sunday while on vacation in Costa Rica. -
Handout/Ferguson, Stein, Chambers, Gresham and SumterFerguson and Julius Chambers represented the Swann family in a landmark lawsuit against the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School Board. The case led school districts nationwide to begin busing students to integrate schools.
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1960s pop star Connie Francis has died. The first female singer to chart a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, she sold over 40 million records before the age of 25. -
Simmons directed the planning for the 12.5-acre Asia exhibit, the zoo’s first expansion in three decades. It’s scheduled to open next year. An Australian habitat is slated to open in 2029. -
David Gergen worked in the administrations of Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton as a speechwriter, communications director and counselor to the president, among other roles. -
Jimmy Swaggart, one of the most well-known televangelists of the 1980s, has died, according to a social media post from his ministry. -
Smith once said he came up with the name Federal Express because he wanted the company to sound big and important when in fact it was a start-up operation with a future far from assured. -
The Kenyan author championed local African languages and was imprisoned for his work. His name was often mentioned in discussions about the Nobel Prize in Literature. -
Highland Brewing founder Oscar Wong opened Asheville's first legal craft brewery since Prohibition. His leadership helped shape the city into a national beer destination. -
In 1975, "Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape" explored pernicious cultural and legal attitudes about rape and helped debunk the long-held view that victims were partly to blame. -
Wendt got his start in Chicago's The Second City improv comedy troupe. He went on to earn six Primetime Emmy nominations for his role as a lovable barfly on "Cheers." -
Souter was appointed to the Supreme Court by President George H.W. Bush in 1990. He retired in 2009.
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An appreciation of Dame Cleo Laine, a jazz singer whose evocative phrasing and four-octave range made her among the most celebrated voices in the world.
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With his beard, long hair and brown felt fedora, the jazz flugelhorn player and composer cut an unforgettable figure in American culture. -
Actor, director and musician Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for his role as the sweet teenager Theo Huxtable on "The Cosby Show," has died at age 54. NPR looks at the legacy he leaves behind.
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Actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for playing Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has died at 54. Costa Rican authorities report he was on a family vacation there and drowned while swimming.
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We remember Kenneth Colley, the British character actor who died late last month. Colley was best known as Admiral Piett in the Star Wars movies.
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Andrea Gibson was a queer poet who's been called a "rock star of poetry slams." They died at 49 after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer four years ago.
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The composer Mark Snow has died at 78 years old. He did the music for many TV shows, including The X-Files, Smallville and Blue Bloods.
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Richard Greenberg, the Tony Award-winning playwright behind Take Me Out, has died at a nursing home in Manhattan. He was 67.
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His representatives confirmed that his death followed a cardiac arrest this morning. -
Renowned social psychologist James Maas was on a mission to get Americans to take sleep more seriously. The longtime Cornell professor credited with coining the term "power nap" died last week at 86.
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Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart has died at the age of 90, following a heart attack last month. The Pentecostal preacher had an audience of millions before a sex scandal in the late 1980s.
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Moyers, who died June 26, worked as a special assistant to President Lyndon Johnson before becoming an award-winning journalist and PBS host. Originally broadcast in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2017.
