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Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week:
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| James E. Rooney, executive director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (fifth from right), welcomes a group of artists from Roxbury to the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center for the unveiling of the newest exhibit of the MCCA’s Neighborhood Art Program. “Capturing the Spirit of Roxbury,” which includes 41 large-scale paintings, photographs and mixed media compositions, will be on display until July 15. (Photo courtesy of the MCCA) |
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| Last Thursday, Reebok kicked off its Diversity Initiative with the program Black Women Making History. The event was held in honor of Women’s History Month and Black History Month. Denise Kaigler (center), head of Global Communications and first African American woman on the Reebok Senior Management team, moderated a panel discussion that featured women who were the first African Americans to hold their positions, including (left to right): Andrea J. Cabral, Suffolk County Sheriff; Sarah-Ann Shaw, retired WBZ reporter; Dr. Joan Wallace-Benjamin, president and CEO of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts and Jackie Jenkins-Scott, president of Wheelock College. (Photo courtesy of Reebok) |
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| Richard Smith (second from right), president of R.T. Smith and Associates, a consulting firm that provides assistance to those involved in art, education and health care, played a major role in promoting Dr. Leon D. Pamphile’s book, “Haitians’ & African Americans’ Struggle Against Racism Through the NAACP.” Smith’s work has earned him a Humanitarian Recognition Award from Harvard Law School. He is also the former assistant publisher of New England’s Black Weekly Newspaper. From left to right: Boston Municipal Court Judge Milton Wright; Pamphile, author and professor at the University of Pittsburgh; Smith and Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. of Harvard Law. (Photo courtesy of Richard Smith) |
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| President Bush (left) shakes hands with Tuskegee Airman Lee Archer Jr. (second from right) as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. (second from left) shakes hands with Tuskegee Airman Roscoe Brown Jr. (right) during a Congressional Gold Medal Ceremony honoring the Tuskegee Airmen held last Thursday in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington. Please see our story about the ceremony on pg. 9. (AP photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) |
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