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The writer and path-setting activist bell hooks died Wednesday at her home in Kentucky. She thought deeply about love — what it is, and why we need it.

In Florida, Hazel Haley has been teaching English at Lakeland High School since 1939. She's been teaching in the same classroom since 1952! She's retiring this year and the community is grateful for her long service. In some cases, she's taught three generations of the same family. Robin Sussingham of member station WUSF reports.

Len Wein, co-creator of iconic comic book characters such as Wolverine and Storm, has died. He was 69 years old.

Morning Edition remembers Renee Pringle who spent over four decades at NPR as an award-winning audio engineer. Few women worked professionally in the audio industry when she started in 1979.

U.S. employers added 638,000 jobs last month as the unemployment rate dipped to 6.9%. A winter spike in coronavirus infections threatens to further weaken job growth.

Margot Kidder's acting career spanned decades, from TV series in the late 1960s to seven films in the past five years.

A man who helped to expose the Catholic Church's cover-up of clergy sex abuse has died. Phil Saviano was a childhood survivor of abuse and decades later went public with his story.

Curry was the longtime editor of the magazine Emerge, a syndicated columnist and winner of numerous awards for his reporting and commentary. He died Saturday of sudden heart failure.

John Feinstein, a long-time sports columnist at "The Washington Post" and a prolific author of popular sports books, has died at 69.

Tessie Prevost was one of the young Black girls who integrated New Orleans public schools in the 1960s after federal courts forced the system to abide by the Brown vs. the Board of Education ruling.