| State
Sen. Dianne Wilkerson makes a new friend at the Boston Family Shelter
Playspace. Horizons for Homeless Children has installed Playspaces in
140 shelters across Massachusetts to assist the 96,000 Massachusetts
children that experience homelessness every day. Each week, the
Playspaces will give 2,000 homeless children educational and
recreational opportunities to help develop certain necessary skills.
(Photo courtesy of Horizons for Homeless Children) |
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| (From
left) Berklee College of Music students Ayeisha Mathis from Dorchester,
and Abraham Olivio of Hyde Park, rehearse with R&B star Bobby Brown
at Berklee for the the Boston Music Awards. Mathis and Olivio are part
of the Berklee City Music All-Stars, a group of urban Boston students
who are studying on full-tuition Berklee City Music scholarships. The
All-Stars performed a medley of Brown’s hits before being joined by him
for the tune “Roni” at the Orpheum Theater. (Phil Farnsworth photo) |
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| Gregory
L. and Dora W. Burton (front row, third and fourth from left) of Burton
Realty Associates pose with friends at a Dec. 6 open house they hosted
to celebrate the agency’s new location at 392A Warren Street in
Roxbury. (Tony Irving photo) |
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| Harvard
University hosted the latest in a series of historic Civil Rights
Schools, presented by the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People (NAACP), from Dec. 6-9. (Front, from left): Mildred
Roxborough, NAACP; Kweisi Mfume, former president and CEO of the NAACP;
Scot Brown, University of California, Los Angeles; Patricia Sullivan,
University of South Carolina. (Back, from left): Herb Boyd, The Black
World Today; John Bracey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Lorenzo
Morris, Howard University; Denton Watson, State University of New York
at Old Westbury. (Tony Irving photo) |
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| On
Dec. 6, St. Francis House celebrated the dedication of “Kerry’s Floor,”
14 new units of permanent housing on the shelter’s 7th floor named for
Kerry Healey (second from left). While she was lieutenant governor,
Healey was instrumental in securing funding for the construction and
ongoing operations of the new units. (From left): Karen LaFrazia,
executive director of St. Francis House; Healey; Tony Irving, freelance
photographer and graduate of the MAP program at St. Francis House; and
Kathleen Dennehy of the Interagency Council on Homelessness. (Photo
courtesy of St. Francis House) |
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| Julie
Foudy, Brandi Chastain and Kristine Lilly, all members of the 1999
Women’s World Cup Championship soccer team, recently visited Boston
Latin Academy in Dorchester to join Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Boston
Public Schools Superintendent Carolyn Johnson in honoring Academy
senior Maria Centeio (second from left). The World Cup team was in town
to be inducted into Northeastern University’s Sport and Society Hall of
Fame. Centeio received the Kevin W. Fitzgerald Giving Back Award for
her extensive community service. (Photo courtesy of City of Boston
Mayor’s Office) |
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| About
100 neighborhood residents got a free flu vaccine during two clinics
provided by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in partnership with
Mattapan Community Health Center in November. Top: Jane Onuma receives
her flu vaccine from Danielle Hannigan, a registered nurse at MGH.
Above (from left): MGH caregivers Dr. Nakela Cook, Dr. Leigh Simmons,
registered nurse practitioner Kathleen Kelly, registered nurse Michelle
Anderson, and Hannigan. (Photos courtesy of MGH) |
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| “Sketches
of Spain,” a photographic exhibit by Don West and Hakim Raquib, is
running now through Jan. 27, 2008, at the African American Master
Artists in Residence Program (AAMARP) Gallery at 76 Atherton Street in
Jamaica Plain. The exhibit focuses on the history and architecture of
the Andalusian area of southern Spain, where the Moors and Gypsies had
a strong influence on the culture of Spain and beyond. The magnificent
detail of the Alhambra Fortress in Granada (top) and the musical
“duende” of Flamenco in Sevilla (bottom) are brilliantly depicted.
(top: Hakim Raquib photos; bottom: Don West photos) |
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