Boston Scenes

Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin celebrates after his team defeated the Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009, in Tampa, Fla. Tomlin, 36, became the second African American coach to win a Super Bowl, as well as the youngest. (AP photo/David J. Phillip)

State Rep. Benjamin Swan, D-Springfield (center), holds a child in this photo, taken during a recent trip to Liberia. Swan’s visit to the African nation — where statistics say one in 12 women die in childbirth, 85 percent of the population is unemployed and there is no running water or central electricity, among other obstacles — was part of an initiative launched by Universal Human Rights International (UHRI), an organization that has helped Liberian refugees to learn new skills to improve their lives, as well as the communities in which they once lived. (Photo courtesy of UHRI)

Dr. Krystal Banfield, director of Berklee City Music Boston, presents award-winning journalist Liz Walker (right) with a plaque at the annual Unsung Heroes Breakfast at Berklee on Jan. 24. (Phil Farnsworth photo)

Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday, Jan. 15, 2009, before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his nomination as attorney general. He won confirmation on Monday, Feb. 2, 2009, as the nation’s first African American attorny general. (AP photo/Evan Vucci)

In observance of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday on Feb. 12, the National Archives at Boston, located in Waltham, will host an open house from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. The exhibit, “A New Birth of Freedom: Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865,” will include original documents from the Lincoln era. (Photo courtesy of National Archives)

Marjorie Mills, a domestic violence/family advocate at Bowdoin Street Health Center, and Patrick Thomas, an employee in operations/contracting at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), received the 2009 Martin Luther King Jr. YMCA Black Achievers Award. They were among several employees nominated for exemplary leadership. The nominees (from left): Crosby Bennett, Health Information Management; Mills; Margie Stuppard, Surgical Specialties; Michelle Niles, Fiscal Administration; Fernanda Fernandes-Sanogueira, Interpreter Services; Thomas. (Photo courtesy of BIDMC)

M. Yvette Miller (left) is sworn in as the first African American woman to hold the position of chief judge of the Court of Appeals of Georgia on Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009, at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta. Gary B. Andrews, presiding judge of the Court of Appeals, administered the oath. (Photo courtesy of the Court of Appeals of Georgia)