Boston Scenes

Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week

Girls play soccer during the Boston Scholar Athlete All-Star Games. A collaboration between BPS coaches and the Boston Scholar Atheltic program (BSA), it was the first such game in five years. (Photo courtesy of The Red & Blue Foundation)

Carrying on a Proud Tradition. JROTC Navy Cadets representing the John D. O’Bryant School, from left, Deanna Smith, Kadeisha Reid, Saline Payne and Tavia Green on their way to march in the annual Veterans Day Parade on the Boston Common. (Lolita Parker Jr. photo)

Johnny Gill (second from left) award winning singer-songwriter and member of New Edition is joined by Anna Cheshire Levitan (left), Walker Allen (second from right) and Shannon Allen (right) at the Joslin Diabetes Center High Hopes Gala held over the weekend. Levitan and Allen (wife of Celtics star Ray Allen) were co-chairs of the event which raised more than $1 million for the Joslin Diabetes Center. (Don West photo, www.donwestfoto.com)

Community Change, an anti-racism organization based in Boston, presented their annual Drylongso Awards to Chip Berlet (left), Yvette Modestin (second from right), Bridget Hickson (right) and Jacqui Parker (not pictured). In addition to the Drylongso Awards, the Horace Seldon Emerging Leader Award was presented to Nashira Baril (second from left) and Amaad Rivera (center). Community Change was founded by Horace Seldon and is now chaired by Paul Marcus. (Don West photo, www.donwestfoto.com)

On Friday, November 6, 2009, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute hosted an all day event in Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School, entitled “Confronting Legal Injustice/Imagining Legal Justice.” Pictured is Keynote speaker, Stephen Bright, President and Senior Counsel, Southern Center for Human Rights. (Tony Irving photo)

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