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Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week:
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| (From left): Dorchester’s Camila Pontes, Troi Jackson-Conn and Samira Pontes joined Roxbury’s Adiba Manning as athletes honored at a recent winter athletic assembly held at Newton Country Day School of the Sacred Heart. Samira, a four-year guard on the varsity basketball team, received the Coaches Award, while Camila was voted co-captain-elect of the 2009 varsity team. Troi, a freshman, was voted most improved player on the JV volleyball team, while Adibi, a sophomore, was named MVP of the JV basketball squad. (Photo courtesy of Newton Country Day School) |
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Math teachers at the John D. O’Bryant School of Math & Science in Roxbury wear their Pi T-shirts to celebrate “Pi Day” in honor of the Greek letter Pi, the mathematical symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Pi is usually expressed as 3.14, and math enthusiasts recognize it on March 14. (Photo courtesy of Boston Public Schools)
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| Morehouse alumni and members of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. strike a pose. (From left): John Borders IV, Hannibal Scipio II, Italo M. Brown, Alan Arrington and Marcus McCullough. (Shaquanna Philip photo) |
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| The Atlanta-based band Jaspects features pianist/music director Terrence Brown, bassist John-Christopher Sowells, drummer Henry C. Conerway III, tenor saxophonist D’Wayne Dugger, alto saxophonist “Sir” Jaye Price and trumpeter James E. King. (Shaquanna Philip photo) |
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| First lady Diane Patrick (left) joined Lisa Hartwick, program director of The Center for Violence Prevention and Recovery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Barbara Sarnoff Lee, director of social work, during BIDMC’s March 6 celebration of the center’s 10th anniversary. (Photo courtesy of BIDMC) |
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| More than 150 people turned out to see noted poet, playwright and activist Amiri Baraka when he appeared at the Roxbury Center for the Arts at Hibernian Hall on the evening of Feb. 28. (Photo courtesy of Kelley Chunn & Associates) |
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| Participating students, parents, staff and supporters of the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity Inc. (METCO) — including Concetta Paul (left) and her son Gar Paul, a METCO student in Wellesley — gathered at the State House for the organization’s 41st annual Lobby Day on March 11. Gar Paul was honored for his essay on the realization of the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Lolita Parker Jr. photo) |
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| Bob Giles (right), curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, listens as William Worthy (left) speaks at the foundation’s offices in Cambridge. Worthy recently received the Louis M. Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism Award. During a long and distinguished career as a journalist, Worthy traveled extensively to report on global events for such news outlets as the Baltimore Afro-American and CBS News. (Photo courtesy of the Nieman Foundation) |
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| Rachel Ssesanga (left), age 8, attends third grade at Higginson School in Roxbury. Since becoming a member of the Boston Elite Swim Team (B.E.S.T.), Rachel has overcome her swimming jitters. B.E.S.T. is a nonprofit aiming to teach inner-city youth the fundamentals of swimming. The group hosts a March Madness Swim Meet on Saturday at Madison Park Community Center. For more information, e-mail B.E.S.T. Director Nadine Jesionek at nadine_jesionek@hphc.org. (Lauren Mills photo) |
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| (From left): Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons, author and lecturer Geoffrey Canada, Harvard Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. and former Cambridge Mayor Kenneth Reeves pose for a photo following Canada’s event and book signing at Harvard Law School last Wednesday evening. Canada is seen holding the Key to the City of Cambridge, presented to him in recognition of his work with children with the Harlem Children’s Zone in New York. (Tony Irving photo) |
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| Rodnell Collins, nephew of Malcolm X, speaks with Edmund Barry Gaither, director-curator of the National Center of Afro-American Artists (NCAAA), last Sunday at the Museum of the NCAAA on Walnut Street in Roxbury. Collins spoke about his book, “Seventh Child: A Family Memoir of Malcolm X,” shared insights about the relationship between Malcolm X and his mother, Ella Little-Collins, whom he likened to the archetypal warrior woman Queen Hatshetsup. (Lolita Parker Jr. photo) |
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