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Joyce Spector Mekelburg, second-to-last known survivor of Cocoanut Grove fire, dies at 100

"The whole place was one mob — shouting screaming, pushing," Mrs. Mekelburg said the day after she crawled along a floor to escape the Cocoanut Grove blaze that killed 492 people.

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Rev. Edward W. Rodman obituary: elevated the role and impact of Black Episcopalians

“Ed was the social conscience of the diocese," the Rev. Thomas Kennedy said of Rev. Rodman, who had been a civil rights activist since high school.

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William Whitworth, gracious editor who shaped The Atlantic's writing and readers' tastes, dies at 87

With Mr. Whitworth as top editor, The Atlantic became "the best-edited magazine in America," a former colleague once wrote.

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Gerry Burke, who helped turn Doyle's pub into a Boston institution, dies at 83

With his two brothers, Mr. Burke turned Doyle's into the city's political gathering place of choice for decades.

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Lawrence Langer, Simmons professor and 'towering figure in Holocaust studies,' dies at 94

"The history of the Holocaust leads to a spiritual universe more haggard than the one we inhabited before its arrival," Dr. Langer once wrote.

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Steven Wise dies; lawyer at forefront of animal rights

Mr. Wise contended -- in courts, articles, and books -- that chimpanzees, elephants, whales, and other highly intelligent creatures have a fundamental right to liberty, no less than the humans who often confined or killed them.

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Eve Nussbaum Soumerai, teacher, writer who drew from her Holocaust experiences, dies at 97

“I am the sole Holocaust survivor of a large, loving family,” Ms. Soumerai once said while advocating that education about genocide be mandatory for high school students.

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Larry Kessler, whose HIV/AIDS activism changed policy and saved lives, dies at 81

“The important thing is to be available to the people who need me most," Mr. Kessler said of his tireless work on behalf of those living with HIV/AIDS and others marginalized by society.

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Charles Daniels, whose camera chronicled Boston's rock history, dies at 81

"I didn’t need to see the final result as much as I just thought I needed to pay attention," Mr. Daniels said of the thousands of rolls of undeveloped film he shot of rock musicians as he chronicled Boston's cultural history in the 1960s and '70s.

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