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Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week:
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| Dr. S. Allen Counter, a world-renowned neuroscientist and professor at Harvard University, poses with students from the Paul Robeson Institute for Positive Self Development. Counter is the co-recipient, along with Gov. Deval Patrick, of the Paul Robeson Leadership Award from the Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts organization. (Courtesy of NIA Media) |
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| Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (center) chats with school children Jonathon Turner, 11, and Ariana Gardner, 10, at John P. Holland Elementary School in Dorchester. Patrick promised $2.8 million in state grants last Thursday for programs aimed at stemming a spate of inner-city Boston violence. (AP photo/ Steven Senne) |
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| This 1943 painting by Norman Lewis is entitled Harlem Jazz Jamboree and is part of the Wein Collection now on exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts. (Photo courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) |
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| Grambling University head football coach Eddie Robinson, 78, watches from the sidelines during his last home game in Grambling, La., Saturday, Nov. 15, 1997. Robinson, the longtime Grambling coach who won 408 games — more than any other coach in the history of college football at the time he retired — and transformed a small black college into a football power that sent hundreds of players to the NFL, died Tuesday, April 3. He was 88. While his on-field accomplishments were legendary, Robinson always said that his greatest achievement was spending “57 years with the same wife and same job.” (AP photo/Eric Gray) |
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| The Museum of Fine Arts recently purchased six works from noted jazz impresario and art collector George Wein and is exhibiting them now until August 2007. One of the works is “Tire Jumping in Front of My Window,” an oil painting by Boston native Allan Rohan Crite. (Photo courtesy of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) |
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| Chen Feng, chairman of Hainan Group (left) shows an airplane model of Grand China Air to Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino (center) and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick during a news conference at Logan International Airport in Boston, Thursday, March 8, 2007. The event marked the inaugural air cargo flight of Yangtze River Express, a subsidiary of the Hainan Group and Hainan Airlines, to Shanghai, China. (AP photo/Chitose Suzuki) |
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