December 10, 2009 — vol. 45, no 18
Boston Scenes
Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week
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Boston firefighters Amos Monteiro, (left) and David Blaides received Meritorious Conduct Awards from Gov. Deval Patrick for their individual acts of courage during an accident in Mission Hill in which Lt. Kevin Kelley lost his life. |
Volunteers from the youth organization Project HIP-HOP (Highways Into the Past – History, Organizing and Power) boarded buses departing from Dudley Station to remind people about the significance of December 1st, the day in 1955 that Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat and helped launch the Montgomery Bus Boycott. (Photo courtesy of Project HIP-HOP) |
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New York Law School Professor Annette Gordon-Reed discussed “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American family,” a Pulitzer Prize winning history of one of America’s first families, during a lecture last week at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute at Harvard Law School. (Lolita Parker Jr. photo)
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Newly elected city At-Large City Councillor Felix Arroyo stands in the middle of Dorchester Academy
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The Union of Minority Neighborhoods (UMN) and Massachusetts Law Reform Institute join together to honor Ernest “Tony” Winsor, Esq., and JudyAnn Bigby, MD for their tireless work to reform CORI laws. (Tony Irving photo) |
