Boston Scenes

Reggie Lewis, former captain of the Boston Celtics, smiles with his wife Donna during a news conference in Boston announcing his return to basketball on May 10, 1993. Less than three months later, on July 27, 1993, the Northeastern University product suffered a sudden cardiac death on the basketball court at an off-season practice at Brandeis University. He was 27 years old. Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of Lewis’ passing. (AP photo/Jon Chase)

In this photo released by the U.S. Army, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (right) and David Petraeus, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, walk down a runway at Baghdad International Airport, Iraq, Monday, July 21, 2008. Iraq’s government welcomed Obama on Monday with a message of apparent common ground on American troop withdrawal goals: expressing hopes that combat forces could leave by 2010. (AP photo/Ssg. Lorie Jewell, HO)

The Women’s Fightback Network protests outside NSTAR’s Massachusetts Avenue complex. This May, over 100,000 Massachusetts households received utility shutoff notices. Spokesperson, Miya X, pointed out that many people are getting laid off and do not realize they could have applied for hardship or low-income utility rates. (Kathryn Hall photo)  

Boston City Councilor Charles Yancey presented proclamation to folk legend Odetta at Franklin Park on July 8. Odetta performed that day at the Elma Lewis Playhouse in the park, forty years after performing there for the first time, in 1968. The city proclamation declared July 8, 2008 Odetta Day in the city of Boston. (Matthew G. West photo)

Activists delivered a pile of coal to the front steps of the state Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs’ Cambridge street location earlier this month. The act came in protest to the office’s recent dismissal of an appeal of the state’s approval for a coal gasification project in Somerset, Mass. Holding signs bearing slogans like “Climate Justice Now,” the protesters shouted, “There’s no such thing as clean coal.” (Photo courtesy of Mountain Justice)

Grove Hall’s Prince Hall Lodge held its seventh annual Children Identification program (CHIP) during a daylong event on June 18 at the Yawkey Club of Roxbury in Dudley Square. (From left): Bill Walker, Prince Hall Lodge; Jessica Rivera; Angel Matos (standing); Dana Hines, Prince Hall Lodge. (Tony Irving photo)

Christian Carrero of Dorchester, Sam Murray of Dorchester, Nick Hicks of South Boston and Christian Soto Olivero of Mattapan (front row, from left) were the winners of the Fenway Challenge, part of the Boston Centers for Youth & Families’ (BCYF) annual Sox Talks, held at Playstead Park in Dorchester. The challenge is a competition in running, hitting and throwing for boys and girls ages 6-14. Joining the winners were (from left): Red Sox catcher Kevin Cash, hitting coach Dave Magadan, outfielder Brandon Moss, bullpen coach Gary Tuck, pitcher Javier Lopez, pitcher David Aardsma, first base coach Luis Alicea, bench coach Bad Mills, pitching coach John Farrell, and BCYF’s Mike Devlin. (Photo courtesy of BCYF)