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Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week:
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| Ethiopia’s Dire Tune (left) kicks hard as she beats Russia’s Alvetina Biktimirova (right) by a scant 2 seconds in the closest women’s finish in Boston Marathon history. Tune’s winning time was 2 hours, 25 minutes, 25 seconds (Don West photo) |
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| Carmen Fields, director of community relations/economic development for NE at KeySpan (now part of National Grid), raises her paddle to bid on an item at the 7th Annual ABCD “Keeping a Roof Over Their Heads” Charity Auction to assist homeless families at the Boston Marriott Copley Place, on April 18, 2008. (Don West photo) |
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| The Massachusetts Black Judges Conference (MBJC) last Wednesday presented its 21st annual book awards to nine Massachusetts law school students in the John Adams Courthouse. Southeast Housing Court Judge and MBJC President Wilbur P. Edwards (seated, left) and Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall (seated, right) joined the recipients for a photo. (From left, standing): Jasmine Campbell, Western New England College School of Law; Reginald Champagne, Boston University School of Law; Keisha Stokes, Harvard Law School; Antonio Lomba Jr., New England School of Law; Moses A. Heyward, Suffolk University Law School; Jawara K. Griffin, Southern New England School of Law; Nicole Bluefort, Northeastern University School of Law; and Anne L. Hemingway, Massachusetts School of Law. Absent from photo: Claudia Matthews, Boston College Law School. (Photo courtesy of Massachusetts Black Judges Conference) |
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| Dr. Francis Fynn-Thompson (standing, left) stands with all of the children on whom he operated during his recent medical mission to Accra, Ghana. Fynn-Thompson, originally from Ghana and now a cardiac surgeon at Children’s Hospital Boston, traveled to his homeland with a staff of 27 health professionals to not only perform life-saving operations on Ghanaian youth, but also to teach his African counterparts how to provide care for their own. (Matt Cyr photo) |
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| Michael Spence of Randolph (second from left), a seventh-grade student at the Belmont Hill School, placed second in the third annual national “Chinese Bridge” Mandarin Chinese speech contest, held last Saturday at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Alongside Spence are (from left): Dr. J. Keith Motley, chancellor of UMass-Boston; Ai Fanglin, education counselor of the Chinese Consulate General in New York City; and Weston resident William Dunn, also a Belmont Hill student, who finished in first place. (Kahrim Wade photo) |
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