| Teen
members from some of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston (BGCB) played
basketball to raise funds for the BGCB Youth Service Providers Network
(YSPN). YSPN connects at-risk youth with appropriate prevention and
intervention services. The tournament featured eight mixed teams
composed of teens from BGCB’s five Clubs in Charlestown, Chelsea,
Dorchester, Roxbury and South Boston. Sponsors for the teams included
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, John Hancock, the Bank of New
York Mellon and the Boston Celtics/Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation.
Promotional support and news coverage were provided by 7NBC and CW56.
(Photo courtesy of Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston) |
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| (From
left): Liz Walker, minister and host/executive producer of “Sunday with
Liz Walker”; Rev. Gloria White Hammond of Roxbury; and Maya Balle of
Boston gather at the New Center for Arts and Culture’s Feb. 6 event
“Working to Make a Difference,” a conversation between Walker and Liz
Lerman at the Remis Auditorium at the Museum of Fine Arts. They
discussed their desire to make a difference in society through their
own artistic expression. (Michael Dwyer photo) |
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| Alongside
cabinet members, outreach workers and clean-up crews who gathered on
Hendry Street in Dorchester last week, Mayor Thomas M. Menino (right)
announced the creation of the City’s Foreclosure Intervention Team
(FIT). With at least 12 homes foreclosed and several others boarded up,
abandoned and petitioned for foreclosure, the area around Hendry,
Coleman and Clarkson streets was the focus of the first FIT project.
(Photo courtesy of the City of Boston Mayor’s Office) |
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| Paul
and Stephen Kendrick (third and fourth from left), the father-and-son
authors of “Douglass and Lincoln: How a Revolutionary Black Leader and
a Reluctant Liberator Struggled to End Slavery and Save the Union,”
share a moment with Sister Ruth (left) and Brother Blue during a Feb.
15 lecture and question-and-answer event at the Harvard Book Store in
Cambridge. (Tony Irving photo) |
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| Rashawn
Peete of Roxbury, a first-grader at the Garfield Elementary School in
Brighton, commemorates the 100th day of school. Students in Mrs.
Rexrode’s first grade class have been counting up to the milestone by
collecting 100 everyday objects to learn about math and counting.
(Photo courtesy of Boston Public Schools) |
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| Harvard
law professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. (left) talks with the Rev. Jesse
L. Jackson Sr. at the Christian Life Center of St. Paul A.M.E. Church
in Cambridge on Monday morning. Jackson delivered a speech at the
church about the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. For excerpts from
the speech, go to our Opinion section. (KC Bailey photo) |
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| This
explosive piece is part of “Nothing flourishes alone,” a show of new
work by painter and Boston Arts Academy visual arts faculty member Beth
Balliro. The exhibit opens March 4 with a reception from 5-7 p.m. at
the academy’s Sandra & Philip Gordon Gallery, located at 174
Ipswich Street. For more information, call 617-635-6470 (Photo courtesy
of Boston Arts Academy) |
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| Dancing
in dragon costumes, marching in parades and gathering by the Chinatown
Gate, Boston residents celebrated Chinese New Year on Sunday. According
to the Chinese Zodiac, 2008 is the Year of the Rat. (Tony Irving photos) |
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