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Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week:
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| On Feb. 1, Taunton-based business Princess House officially kicked off their 2008 American Heart Association (AHA) campaign by participating in National Wear Red Day and launching company-wide “Love Your Heart” initiatives as part of the AHA’s Go Red For Women Movement. Go Red celebrates the energy, passion and power of women joined together to fight the number one killer of American women: cardiovascular disease. (Photo courtesy of Princess House) |
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| (From left): Poet Thomas Sayers Ellis, funk legend Bootsy Collins, Berklee College of Music Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs Lawrence J. Simpson, Bootsy’s wife Patti Collins and Kellie Knight pose for a photo following “A Conversation with Bootsy Collins,” held last Thursday evening at the Berklee Performance Center. (Tony Irving photo) |
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| As part of a major historic restoration project, the Museum of African American History is returning the African Meeting House on Beacon Hill to its 19th century condition, a public-private partnership including funding from federal, state and private sources. In honor of Black History Month, the Wal-Mart Foundation on Monday donated $250,000 to the African Meeting House Project, one of the largest private contributions to date. On hand for the announcement of the donation were (from left): state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson; Beverly Morgan-Welch, the museum’s executive director; and Margaret McKenna, president of the Wal-Mart Foundation. (Photo courtesy of the Museum of African American History) |
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| Jessica Henderson Daniel (left), Ph.D., of Children’s Hospital Boston and Dr. Granville Coggs (right), a former Tuskegee Airman, pose for a picture after Coggs gave a dynamic presentation to a group of employees at Children’s. Coggs served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1943 to 1946. He was the only black student in his Harvard Medical School Class of ’53 and has since developed into a talented doctor. He became the first black physician at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in San Francisco, Calif. He established the ultrasound division at the University of California-San Francisco in 1972, and was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame in Nov. 2001. (Photo courtesy of Children’s Hospital Boston) |
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| Barbara Lewis, director of the William Monroe Institute for the Study of Black Culture at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, speaks to attendees at the recent kick-off event for the Big Read of Eastern Massachusetts, an initiative funded by a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts and conducted by WUMB 91.9FM. (Photo courtesy of WUMB) |
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| Alisha Cooper and Samanta Miceus, fifth-graders at the Dennis C. Haley Elementary School in Roslindale, greet and check in their classmates during the school’s mock presidential election, held on Super Tuesday. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., earned the most votes at the Haley School polls. (Photo courtesy of Boston Public Schools) |
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