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Boston Scenes

Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week

Whittier Street Health Center presented its “Health Champion Awards” to community leaders as part of its 6th Annual Men’s Health Summit, held Saturday, June 6, 2009, at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury. Whittier Street Health Center President and CEO Frederica Williams (standing, center) presented awards to (seated, from left): Eno Mondesir, Paul Francisco, Robert Lewis Jr., Sam Yoon, Richard Kalish and Keith McDermott. (Don West photo, www.donwestfoto.com)

Naomi Weekes (left), a senior at the Cambridge School of Weston, receives a $1,000 award for winning the 2009 Princeton Prize in Race Relations from City Councilor-at-Large Sam Yoon, a Princeton University alum, during a reception held at the Algonquin Club in Boston on Thursday, May 21, 2009. Weekes won for establishing and hosting a weekly workshop on race at her school. (Photo courtesy of the Princeton Prize)

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Actor Sean Ringgold, best known for his performances as Shaun on the long-running ABC soap opera “One Life to Live” and as West Coast hip-hop mogul Marion “Suge” Knight in the film “Notorious,” delivers the keynote address at the Whittier Street Health Center’s 6th Annual Men’s Health Summit, held Saturday, June 6, 2009, at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Roxbury. (Tony Irving photo)

 

Mel and Joyce King (seated, from left) were recently presented with the Harriet Tubman Award by United South End Settlements for their lifetime of work to improve the community. Joining them are the award’s presenters (from left): Robert Johnson, Sabrina Williams and Kevin Lee Hepner, director of USES. (Don West photo, www.donwestfoto.com)

The Rev. Dr. LeRoy Attles (left) speaks with Gov. Deval Patrick at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cambridge on Sunday, June 7, 2009. Attles delivered his final sermon as pastor of St. Paul on Sunday, bringing an end to 31 years as the head of the Cambridge church and an integral part of the Greater Boston religious community. (KC Bailey photo)

Veteran journalist Gwen Ifill delivered the commencement speech at Simmons College’s graduation ceremonies last month, encouraging the college’s graduates to choose something meaningful in which to participate. “The stakes are too high,” said Ifill, a Simmons alum. (John Gillooly photo)