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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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