Bryan Marquard

In December 1991, Jack Sansolo achieved a measure of national fame when he was featured on the cover of Fortune magazine next to the headline: “Gay in Corporate America.”

Dr. Grant was a Boston Public Schools deputy superintendent and had helped launch 20 professional development schools and two charter schools in Michigan.

To Alice Brock, the song that immortalized her name and her long-ago Stockbridge restaurant stirred memories of the best parts of the 1960s.

As the son of trumpeter who had shared the stage with jazz greats, Larry Johnson knew that talent, though necessary, isn't always enough to carry the day in artistic pursuits.

As the son of a pioneering Black diplomat, Clifton R. Wharton Jr. spent most of his early years abroad in places where he faced little overt racism.

As an immigration judge in Boston, Leonard Shapiro made international news twice when he allowed President Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt and uncle to remain in the United States in high-profile deportation cases.

A physician of endless curiosity and talents, Dr. O'Brien was "the most interesting person I’ve ever met," said his son, TV talk show host Conan O'Brien, whose parents both died this week.

During her commencement speech at Walnut Hill School for the Arts in June , the last graduation she would attend, Linda Lifsey Hughes invoked an

In a life overflowing with children and clients, Ruth Reardon O'Brien pioneered a path for women who wanted to practice law at a high level in Boston while focusing just as intently on their families.

“My parents complemented each other very well,” Conan O'Brien said of Ruth and Tom O'Brien, whose influence on him and his siblings was lasting and profound.