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Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week:
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| Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta Scott King, sit with three of their four children in their Atlanta, Ga., home on March 17, 1963. From left are: Martin Luther King III, 5, Dexter Scott, 2, and Yolanda Denise, 7. Yolanda Denise King, daughter and eldest child of civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died late Tuesday May 15, 2007 in Santa Monica, Calif., at age 51. (AP file photo) |
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| Students from Parkway Academy of Technology & Health in West Roxbury joined Dorchester native and recording artist Free (left) at Reebok headquarters for the launch of the Reebok 4 Real Human Rights Student Advocate Program, the company’s new global corporate citizenship initiative. (Photo courtesy of Reebok) |
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| Gov. Deval Patrick presented longtime community activist Juan Tennyson with a pictorial book of Massachusetts, which the governor signed, on May 16. The Hispanic Writers Association recently honored Tennyson for his nearly 40 years of civic and political work. From left: State Sen. Dianne Wilkerson, Tennyson, State Rep. Linda Dorcena Forry, Patrick, State Rep. Gloria L. Fox, State Rep. Marie St. Fleur, and State Rep. Byron Rushing. (Courtesy of State Rep. Gloria L. Fox) |
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| Dorchester resident Kaitlin Lynch, a junior at Concord Academy, was awarded the 2007 Princeton Prize in Race Relations for her efforts to improve race relations in her school community. She received her $1,000 award at a May 17 reception held at the State House. Kaitlin was honored for her leadership during the fall of 2006, when she discovered a race-based threat of violence scrawled on a school restroom wall. She promptly reported it, then arranged to address the student body about how the incident affected her personally as the daughter of a black mother and a white father. (Photo courtesy of the Boston Princeton Prize Committee) |
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| Justin Byron of Madison Park High School “Team 2” gets ready to race the team’s ‘sail car’ at the Lemelson-MIT Program Windy 500, a highlight event of the first-ever EurekaFest. EurekaFest, a four-day celebration of invention in Boston from May 2-5, was held by the Lemelson-MIT Program in partnership with the Museum of Science. The Windy 500 event challenged 20 Massachusetts high school teams to design, build and race their wind-powered vehicles across the Museum floor propelled by high-powered fans. (Justin Boyer photo) |
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