Marcano’s 2024 play centers on a circle of friends affected by the Puerto Rican birth control trials in the 1950s.

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Rebecca Lee Crumpler's gravestone was only installed in 2020, 125 years after her death in 1895. John Tlumacki / The Boston Globe via Getty Images In 1864, newspapers in Boston noted a milestone: The ...

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