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Jones, known for generating powerful, energetic performances despite her small stature while fronting The Dap-Kings for the past decade, had been fighting pancreatic cancer since 2013.

In 1972, NPR invited listeners to write ads for stuff money can't buy. We're doing it again this year. But first, to jog your thinking, here are a few examples of the more, well, unique ads back then.

Muhammad Ali was among the great lives that ended in 2016. The self-proclaimed "greatest" boxer-turned-activist left a profound social and political legacy.

Natalie Babbitt died Monday at her home in Connecticut at age 84. She was a writer who never talked down to the children she wrote for. That included covering big concepts like death.

At a home near the Dakota Access Pipeline, one woman can't join the demonstration because of her young children. But she's participating by offering shelter to visitors, including an NPR reporter.

Some residents of Baltimore say the relationship with the police is badly damaged. But it wasn't always that way.

Released less than a month after the singer's death at 26, the posthumous smash became Redding's signature song. But it came close to not being released at all.

Florida is a popular destination for seasonal and part-time residents. Many owners are up north wondering how their second homes fared after Irma.

Beginning with Screamin' Jay Hawkins belting out 'I Put a Spell on You' in 1984's Stranger Than Paradise, Cuyahoga Falls native Jim Jarmusch made it clear that music wasn't going to be just part of his films. It's at the very center of the stories he tells on screen. Which is easy to understand given Jarmusch's passion for music.

The artists behind “Don’t Be Still” want their audience to take the message literally. They did. “I was painting in my studio one day, and I heard dimly in the background about pay equality for women and the need for legislation,” said artist John W. Carlson. “I was just, ‘did I just hear that?’” The Cleveland painter teamed up with filmmaker Robert Banks to challenge gender stereotypes and inequities through their artwork.