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Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week:
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| Michelle Kalisz, one of the 1,200 PricewaterhouseCoopers employees who spent last Thursday volunteering at Boston Housing Authority buildings and area parks, gets a lift from her co-workers at New England’s first public housing development, the Mary Ellen McCormack Development, which is home to nearly 2,000 South Boston residents. (Photo courtesy of PricewaterhouseCoopers) |
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| Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, shares a laugh with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY prior to the start of the Democratic presidential primary debate of the 2008 election hosted by the South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, SC., Thursday, April 26, 2007. (AP photo/J. Scott Applewhite) |
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| Cambridge Mayor Kenneth Reeves (left) hosted a reception for Phill Wilson (center), executive director of the Black AIDS Institute, at the Miracle of Science in Cambridge on Wednesday, May 30. Wilson has spent half of his life working to end the AIDS pandemic in the world, and has come to be recognized as one of the foremost African American voices leading the battle against AIDS in communities of color. (Photo courtesy of the City of Cambridge Mayor’s Office) |
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| The 38 valedictorians of the Boston Public Schools’ high school class of 2007 were honored at a recent luncheon at the Boston Harbor Hotel. Eighteen of the 38 have been enrolled in the Boston Public Schools since kindergarten, while others came to the U.S. from around the world, hailing from countries as diverse as Haiti, Cape Verde and Albania. All 38 of the valedictorians have been accepted into colleges and universities, including Boston College, Brown University and Harvard University. (Photo courtesy of Boston Public Schools) |
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| Students and teachers at Jeremiah E. Burke High School in Dorchester recently welcomed Red Sox slugger David Ortiz (back row, center) to kick off the Reebok 4 Real Education and Community Program. The program, which aims to provide fitness equipment and other needed supplies to the school, will award $2,500 scholarships to two deserving students as part of a school-wide essay contest. The winners will be guests at the July 3 Red Sox game at Fenway Park. Scholarships will also be awarded to two students in Ortiz’s native Dominican Republic. (Photo courtesy of Reebok) |
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| Michelle Obama (second from right), the wife of Democratic presidential candidate and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, visited Boston last weekend to speak with supporters of her husband’s campaign. Joining her were (from left): Kathy Jones, Lisa Jones and longtime Boston educational advocate and community activist Hubie Jones. (Don West photo) |
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| The Massachusetts Black Judges Conference (MBJC) presented its 20th annual Book Awards to nine outstanding law school students on May 29 in the John Adams Courthouse. The awards assist second-year law school students in paying for their law books for the following year. Jurists in attendance included (seated, from left): Supreme Judicial Court Justice Roderick L. Ireland, SJC Chief Justice Margaret H. Mitchell, Southeast Housing Court Judge and MBJC President Wilbur P. Edwards Jr., and Appeals Court Justice R. Malcolm Graham. (Photo courtesy of Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court) |
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| The Massachusetts Public Health Association (MPHA) recently held an event in support of legislation to prevent childhood obesity by removing junk food and sugary drinks from public schools. In attendance were MPHA President Harold Cox (right); state Rep. Peter Koutoujian (center), the bill’s chief sponsor; MPHA Executive Director Geoff Wilkinson (far left); and City Councilor Felix Arroyo (top left). (Photo courtesy of the Massachusetts Public Health Association) |
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| City Councilor Felix Arroyo (left) donated $3,000 of his City Council raise to the Bobby Mendes Peace Legacy Fund last month. In May 2006, the Council voted to increase annual salaries of the mayor, top administration officials and councilors. Arroyo decided the money would be better spent on the Peace Legacy, an anti-violence initiative named for Bobby Mendes, slain son of Dorchester activist Isaura Mendes (right). (Photo courtesy of the Office of City Councilor Felix Arroyo) |
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| Youth workers met at the Vietnamese American Community Center in Dorchester last week for a public forum entitled “Violence as a Public Health Issue.” Participants included (from left): Brian K. Gibbs, Ph.D., director of the Cherishing Our Hearts & Souls Coalition; Will Dunn, youth advocate at the Ella J. Baker House in Dorchester; Daniel Fairclough, youth leader with the Close to Home Domestic Violence Prevention Youth Team; and Donovan Walker, executive director of the Roxbury-based Showdown Youth Development Organization. (Photo courtesy of Kelley Chunn & Associates) |
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