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Seven Decades On, Anne Frank's Words Still Comfort

5:20pm March 14, 2015

by Scott Simon

70 years ago, Anne Frank died in a concentration camp. NPR's Scott Simon remembers the diarist, and two teenagers, Afghan refugee Asiieh Panahi and Chicagoan Sydney Falls, read from her writing.

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Rev. Willie Barrow: Remembering 'The Little Warrior'

5:20pm March 14, 2015

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon remembers Chicago civil rights leader Rev. Willie Barrow. She became an activist at 12, and later marched with Martin Luther King Jr.

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Terry Pratchett wrote more than 70 books.

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Author Terry Pratchett Was No Stranger To Death

4:05pm March 13, 2015

by Petra Mayer

The prolific author, who died Thursday at 66, was known for his novels about the fantasy planet Discworld, populated by humans, witches, trolls and dwarves — and a very human, sympathetic Death.

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Architect Michael Graves Dies At 80

2:34pm March 13, 2015

by Krishnadev Calamur

He was celebrated for designing everything from grand hotels to teapots. Graves died at his home in Princeton, N.J., of natural causes, his firm said.

Terry Pratchett at the 2012 South Bank Sky Arts Awards in London.

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Terry Pratchett, Prolific Fantasy Author, Dies At 66

7:56am March 13, 2015

by Colin Dwyer

The Discworld series author had for years struggled with a rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Pratchett amassed a devoted following over four decades of writing — and dozens of novels.

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From Stadiums To Shelters: Remembering Pritzker Winner Frei Otto

10:40pm March 11, 2015

by Mandalit del Barco

German architect Frei Otto has been named the 2015 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The announcement was moved up from March 23, because Otto died on Monday at the age of 89.

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Claude Sitton, 'Dean Of The Race Beat,' Dies At 89

5:56pm March 11, 2015

by Karen Grigsby Bates

Sitton's reporting from the front lines of the civil rights movement earned him the ire of Southern officials and attention from the Department of Justice.

Fresh Air Remembers Pioneering Documentary Filmmaker Albert Maysles

2:25pm March 10, 2015

Maysles and his late brother David made the 1976 film Grey Gardens, a study of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' relatives who lived in squalor in their decaying mansion. He died last week at age of 88.

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Casey Kasem, A Signature Voice Of American Radio, Dies At 82

4:51pm March 08, 2015

by Bilal Qureshi

Kasem hosted one of the country's most popular countdown shows for four decades. This piece originally aired on Weekend Edition on June 15, 2014.

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Albert Maysles, Pioneering Documentary Filmmaker, Dies

7:04pm March 06, 2015

by Lynn Neary

Albert Maysles, a documentary filmmaker behind the films "Gimme Shelter" and "Grey Gardens" died Thursday at the age of 88. He was one of the fathers of what was called "direct cinema."

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