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Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week:
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| Hip-hop star L.L. Cool J (right) leads attendees through a morning fitness session during “Life@50+,” the AARP’s national event and expo, held earlier this month at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. (Photo courtesy of BCEC) |
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| Some 300 marchers from all over Massachusetts to the streets of Dorchester for the second annual Taking Back Our Neighborhoods March & Rally on Tuesday, Sept. 11. The march was organized by the HT3 Peace Network, which called for awareness, peace and healing to be brought to Boston neighborhoods impacted by violence. (Cagen Luse photo) |
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| Nine Boston Public Schools principals recently attended the National Association of Elementary School Principals’ Summer Institute in Monterey, Calif. (Front, from left): Patricia Butler, BPS Dept. of Early Childhood Education; Vera Johnson; Alenor Abdal-Kallaq; Nora Toney; Ben Russell. (Middle): Valerie Gumes; Sherry Brooks-Roberts; Suzanne Federspiel; Catherine Constant. (Back): Dr. Valora Washington, executive director, Schott Fellowship; Marice Diakite. (Photo courtesy of BPS) |
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| Retailer Kohl’s donated $370,000 to fitness and nutrition programs at Children’s Hospital Boston (CHB). Funds will be directed to Children’s Martha Eliot Health Center (MEHC) and other community health centers in Roxbury, Jamaica Plain and nearby neighborhoods. Kohl’s announced its donation at the Sept. 8 MEHC Health Fair. (Photo courtesy of CHB) |
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| Gov. Patrick with Mildred Hailey, one of the founders of Martha Eliot Health Center. They attended the forum at Eliot last Friday when Patrick, Sen. John Kerry and others met to discuss the renewal of SCHIP, a program that expands health coverage to millions of uninsured children across the United States. |
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| At a talk held last week at the Martha Eliot Health Center, Sen. John Kerry and Gov. Deval Patrick discussed the importance of the state Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) and called for Congress’ renewal of the program. Myrca Augustin (center), a Dorchester mother of four kids and patient at the Eliot Health Center, speaks to the value of the health care she is provided for herself and her children. (Photos courtesy of the Martha Eliot Health Center) |
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| Before the Boston Red Sox’ Sept. 15 game against the New York Yankees, six previously uninsured Massachusetts residents who recently purchased health insurance through the Commonwealth Health Connector took part in a ceremony at Fenway Park, part of “Cover Your Bases — Connect to Health Day.” (From left): Justin Ziobro, Henry Murphy, Gabrielle Renee-Bastien, Amy Sanborn, Andre Bastien and Tom Duffy. (Photo courtesy of Weber Shandwick Worldwide) |
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| The original James Brown and the Famous Flames band is seen in a Bobby Byrd family photo taken in the early 1960s at Small’s Paradise in New York City. Byrd, longtime collaborator with the late Godfather of Soul, died Sept. 12 at his home near Atlanta. He was 73. (From left): Lloyd Stallworth; Byrd; Bobby Bennett; Sinclair Pickney, bandleader, playing sax; and Brown. (AP photo/Byrd Family) |
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| Two new members of the New England Patriots, linebacker Adalius Thomas (back) and wide receiver Randy Moss, recently visited the Blue Hill Boys & Girls Club in Dorchester for a special “Kick-Off the School Year Rally,” presented in partnership with the BELL Foundation. The athletes shared advice about hard work, and new backpacks, with the club members. (Photo courtesy of Blue Hill Boys & Girls Club) |
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