After a well-documented childhood as the daughter of Margaret Mead, she earned her own renown with a book on women’s lives that became a touchstone to feminists.
The memorial, called “The Embrace” and designed by Thomas and architects at MASS Design Group, will honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King.
The selection of Mayor Martin J. Walsh as labor secretary has shaken up the mayoral race in Boston, which has struggled with police reform and an extreme racial wealth gap.
A look at this week’s news from the team tracking the coronavirus.
A reader writes in, saying he can’t ski because he can’t get into the state. It’s a very 2020 — wait, 2021 — travel predicament.
New Hampshire’s House of Representatives, whose speaker died of the coronavirus, has refused to meet remotely.
Gabriel Byrne, known for his contemplative performances in “The Usual Suspects” and “In Treatment,” contends with his unlikely path to acting in his memoir, “Walking With Ghosts.”
Estimates from exit polls offer an initial indication of how groups voted on election night.
See full results and maps from the Maine election.
See full results and maps from the Rhode Island election.
See full results and maps from the New Hampshire election.
Rod Webber, a Boston artist with a provocative streak, is to receive $20,000 from the campaign, which admitted no wrongdoing.
Accused of a “decade long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person,” the entrepreneur and spouse of Alec Baldwin talks about Spain, Boston, her children, Instagram and more.
For those who aren’t deterred by a bill in the thousands, if not tens of thousands, buyouts of entire hotels or resorts offer the amenities and services of a hotel and the privacy and control of a vacation rental.
The selfies of health care workers getting vaccines can’t cure infections, but they may provide hope where supplies are sparse.
Farmers Ralph and Lisa Turner of Freeport, Maine, made a living supplying restaurants. This spring, they had tens of thousands of pounds of crops — and no customers.
He used medicine to take on poverty, racism and the threat of nuclear destruction. Two groups he helped start won Nobel Peace Prizes.
During a year with limited travel possibilities, our World Through a Lens series offered Times readers a weekly escape. Here are some of the highlights.
After my son Ben died by suicide, I turned to hiking. I found myself: broken, but braver.
In the late 1960s, Tillett Textiles teamed up with designers in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, for a historically significant collaboration. Now the prints are being reissued.
A Pittsburgh hot dog joint, a famous Cambridge dive bar and a vibrant Filipino restaurant in Los Angeles were among the casualties of 2020.
“There are safety standards and safety features that were supposed to be in place for every event,” a lawyer for the acrobats said.
Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Washington, D.C., all announced they would join a cap-and-trade program for cars and trucks. But many bigger states have yet to join.
See full results and maps from the Vermont election.
See full results and maps from the Rhode Island election.
See full results and maps from the Rhode Island election.
Every four years, as Election Day draws near, we embrace America’s oddball geographic nicknames.
Most professional theater in America has been shut down since March. So how did this production of “Godspell” come together?
Detailed results and maps from the New Hampshire primary election.
Detailed results and maps from the Rhode Island primary election.
Follow live coverage and analysis from Times reporters.
Detailed results and maps from the Massachusetts primary election.
See full results and maps from the Massachusetts primaries.
Get the latest primary results from Connecticut, Georgia, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Follow live coverage and analysis from Times reporters.
Detailed results and maps from the Texas primary runoff election.
Detailed results and maps from the Maine primary election.
Get the latest primary results from Alabama, Maine and Texas.
Get the latest primary results from Alabama, Maine and Texas.
Get the latest primary results from Iowa, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and more.
A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county.
A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county.
A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county.
A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county.
A detailed county map shows the extent of the coronavirus outbreak, with tables of the number of cases by county.