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Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week:
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| Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton (with guitar) visited the Blue Hill Boys & Girls Club in Dorchester last Wednesday to play music with club members and provide professional tips. Hamilton also donated an electric guitar, keyboard and junior drum set to the Club’s Music Clubhouse. The session was made possible through a partnership with the Music & Youth Initiative. (Photo courtesy of Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston) |
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| Actor Clifton Powell, a graduate of Emerson College, is one of three exemplary supporters of urban youth initiatives who will be honored next month at the 19th Annual Unity Breakfast. The breakfast, hosted by Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts, will also celebrate the Rev. Ray Hammond, considered one of New England’s most influential spiritual leaders; Chief Anthony Scott, the first African American chief of police in Holyoke, Mass.; and outstanding young achievers from the Paul Robeson Institute for Positive Self-Development. (Photo courtesy of New Image Associates) |
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| (From left): Boston Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Carol Johnson, Dr. Terrence Roberts and Sarah-Ann Shaw were in attendance, and in conversation, at a recent community event sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves. Speaking at the organization’s “Choosing to Participate” exhibit, on display at the Boston Public Library through May 18, Roberts described his experiences as one of the “Little Rock Nine,” the group of nine African American students who desegregated Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., in 1957. (Photo courtesy of CK Communication) |
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| U.S. Magistrate Judge Joyce London Alexander of the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts (third from left) joined in presenting a top honor to House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (left) in her capacity as chair of the Board of Governors of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. The Joint Center honored Clyburn with its Louis E. Martin Great American Award at its annual dinner on April 8 at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C. Here, Clyburn chats with Tuskegee, Ala., Mayor Johnny Ford, also c-chair of the National Policy Alliance; Alexander, and Ralph B. Everett, president and CEO of the Joint Center. (Photo courtesy of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies) |
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| William T. Coleman Jr. (right), former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation and ardent defender of civil rights, speaks about his relationship with civil rights luminaries, including Charles Hamilton Houston, whom Harvard Law School’s Houston Institute for Race and Justice is named after. Charles J. Ogletree Jr., the institute’s founder, listens. (Tony Irving photo) |
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| Michael Lomax, president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund (left), and Fletcher “Flash” Wiley, civil and business leader, pose for a photo at the Black Policy Conference, held April 4 at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Lomax delivered the conference’s keynote address. (Tony Irving photo) |
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| Gov. Deval Patrick stopped by the Grove Hall studios of Touch 106.1FM last week and spent some time on the air with M.C. Spice, host of the station’s “Big Morning Thing” morning show. The governor answered questions from callers about concerns and issues within the black community, and touched on his education proposal for fiscal year 2009, which includes college credits for high school students to better prepare them for post-graduation success. (Photo courtesy of Touch 106.1FM) |
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| Alicia Canady (left) and Kelley Chunn served as co-chairs of last week’s Black Alumnae/i Symposium at Simmons College. Held once every three years, the event celebrates the college’s long history of impressive black female graduates, and offers students and grads alike a chance to catch up and network. (Don West photo) |
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| Gov. Deval Patrick (left) passes House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi (second from right), speaking with Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Susan Hockfield (right), as he leaves an auditorium after delivering a speech outlining an economic stimulus plan at MIT’s Sloan School of Management in Cambridge on April 9. In the speech, Patrick announced that the Commonwealth will spend $20 million to acquire vacant foreclosed properties and seek a $3.8 billion bond issue to repair the state’s bridges, creating an estimated 23,000 construction jobs. (AP photo/Josh Reynolds) |
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