 But in April, McAlevey wrote on her website that she was entering hospice while battling a rare blood cancer and thanked the tens of thousands of organizers she worked with in her lifetime. She died at her home in Muir Beach, California. She was 59 years old. For NPR News, I'm Brian Krantz. And U.S. futures contracts are trading lower this hour, all three major indices down about one-tenth of a percent. I'm Janine Herbst, NPR News in Washington.