obituaries

Remembering Front-Line Workers Lost To COVID-19

4:16pm September 21, 2020

The United States is expected to surpass 200,000 deaths from COVID-19 soon. NPR marks this grim milestone by remembering front-line workers who lost their lives during the pandemic.

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Remembering Elderly People Lost To COVID-19

4:16pm September 21, 2020

The death toll from COVID-19 in the U.S. is nearing 200,000, and 8 out of 10 of those deaths reported in the country are among adults over 65. NPR remembers a few of those individuals.

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Remembering A Former Schoolteacher Who Died Of COVID-19

10:08am September 21, 2020

Whitney Moore Taylor of Hobbs, N.M., was a former second-grade teacher who was working in early-childhood therapy when she died of COVID-19. She was married, had a daughter and was 31 years old.

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Mourning — And Anticipation — Follows Death Of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

12:19pm September 20, 2020

Since Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death Friday night, mourners have gathered at the Supreme Court to honor her life and legacy. They also await a political fallout.

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Anita Hill speaks onstage at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in October 2018 in Laguna Niguel, Calif.

Anita Hill Reflects On Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Gender Equality Legacy

8:00pm September 19, 2020

Anita Hill says Ruth Bader Ginsburg had a "willingness to really push for a full and inclusive definition of equality."

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A Decades-Long Friendship With The Late RBG

6:09pm September 19, 2020

by Nina Totenberg

The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a legal firebrand and a cultural icon. She was also a close friend of NPR Correspondent Nina Totenberg, who offers this remembrance.

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NPR's Nina Totenberg with the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2018.

Politics & Government

A 5-Decade-Long Friendship That Began With A Phone Call

10:25am September 19, 2020

by Nina Totenberg

NPR's Nina Totenberg first encountered law professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1971. They became close friends after Ginsburg moved to Washington to serve on the federal appeals court.

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Ginsburg acknowledges applause at the 45th commencement at Brandeis University, where she received an honorary law degree in May 1996.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87

10:22pm September 18, 2020

by Nina Totenberg

Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died from complications from cancer. Her death will set in motion what promises to be a tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her.

National

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Dies At 87

8:13pm September 18, 2020

by Nina Totenberg

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who became a legal, cultural, and feminist icon, died Friday at age 87.

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Author Of 'Forrest Gump,' Winston Groom, Dies At 77

3:58pm September 18, 2020

by Andrew Limbong

American novelist Winston Groom died this week at age 77. He wrote the book Forrest Gump, which became an Oscar-winning film and cultural sensation.