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Boston Scenes

Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week

Gov. Deval Patrick, second from left, raises the hand of Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, left, as he introduced her Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009, at the unity event held the morning after Coakley won the Democratic primary for the special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

Boston Celtics Marquis Daniels, Eddie House, Rajon Rondo, and assistant coaches Tom Thibodeau and Clifford Ray spread a little Christmas cheer with kids at Children’s Hospital Boston’s Martha Eliot Health Center in Jamaica Plain.(Steve Lipofsky photo)

Mel King and his wife, Joyce, receive the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award from his personal and professional friend Gus Newport, former Berkeley, Calif., mayor and Boston community organizer. The event was held at Roxbury Community College on the 61st anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Photo)

 

Boston City Council President Michael Ross and Rabbi Rachmiel Liberman light the Menorah on Sunday at Downtown Crossing. (City of Boston photo)

NAACP Chairman Julian Bond and recently appointed NAACP CEO and President Ben Jealous reflected on the achievements of the civil rights organization during an event last week at the JFK Library to honor the group’s 100th anniversary. New York University Law Professor Patricia Sullivan, author of Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement, served as moderator. (Tony Irving photo)

The Roxbury home and office of Jessie Gideon Garnett (1897-1976) on 80 Munroe St. recently received a plaque marking the contribution of Boston’s first African American woman dentist. Dr. Garnett was the first African American to graduate from the Tufts Dental School. (Photos courtesy of the Heritage Guild Inc.)