Boston Scenes

Nikki Giovanni (left) and Christine King Farris pose for a photo at Boston University’s Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center during the recent celebration of the opening of the center’s new exhibition, “Pin His Ear to the Wisdom Post: Martin Luther King Jr. and the School of Prophets.” (Allan E. Dines/Northstar Photography photo)

(From left): Anita Crawford, CEO of the Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center, better known as RoxComp, Academy Award-winning actress and Grammy Award-winning singer Jennifer Hudson, and Ronald Walker, chairman of the board of RoxComp, were three of many revelers in attendance at RoxComp’s annual gala, held Saturday, April 11, 2009, at the Four Seasons Hotel Boston, located on Boylston Street. (Sandy Middlebrooks photo)

Cast and crew members from the touring production of “Ain’t Misbehavin’,” which just wrapped up a three-day run at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester, visited Berklee College of Music on Friday, April 10, 2009, for a forum with students. Berklee Professor Gabrielle Goodman (second from right) hosted the guests. (From left): Drummer Ken Crutchfield, actors Trenyce Cobbins, Arthur W. Marks and Patrice Covington, Goodman, musical director David A. Bunn. (Brandon Kress photo)

Harvard University Professor William Julius Wilson (left) speaks as his colleague, Henry Louis Gates (right), listens during the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute’s Book Party II, held Monday, April 13, 2009, at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. The event featured six Harvard scholars from the university’s Department of African and African American Studies, discussing their recent publications. (Tony Irving photo)

Les Brody, Ph.D. (right), president and CEO of the Epilepsy Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island (EFMRI), celebrates with an attendee at the foundation’s “Casino Night in Havana” event, held Saturday, March 21, 2009, at the Omni Parker House Hotel. The charity event took its inspiration from the golden age of the Cuban supper club, as tango dancers, mojitos and exotic Cuban fare mingled with casino-style gaming and a silent auction to benefit EFMRI. (Photo courtesy of EFMRI)

Akiba Abaka, producing artistic director of Up You Mighty Race Theatre Company, a resident company at the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA), is all smiles after winning the Independent Reviewers of New England Award for Best Director of a Drama for her work on “In the Continuum” at this year’s ceremony. (Photo courtesy of the BCA)

(From left); Rachel Fazzino, Connie Afshar, Tina Chéry and Marisa Luse pose for a photo outside the Survivors’ Rally Before the  Walk, held at Dorchester House on Saturday, April 4, 2009. At the event, the women helped the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute get closer to its goal of raising $200,000 for the 13th Annual Mother’s Walk for Peace. The walk will be held on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 10, 2009, in Dorchester’s Fields Corner. (Cagen Luse photo)