Boston Scenes

Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week

Gil Scott-Heron, the sixties poet who wrote such classics as “The Revolution will not be televised” and “Whitey on the Moon,” was the subject of an op-ed last week by Brian Wright O’Connor. Photographer Lolita Parker Jr. was around during those days and took the above photograph in the spring of 1975 while Scott-Heron performed in Boston.

Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses, Inc. (FDNH) recently was awarded $10,000 from the Verizon Foundation. Stephanie Lee, the Foundation’s Regional Director of Public Affairs, presented the check to FDNH’s Out of School Time program in support of its Creating Young Writers component. (Photo Courtesy of Verizon Foundation)

Sen. Sonia Chang-Diaz, Rep. Liz Malia, and Rev. Hurmon Hamilton, of Roxbury Presbyterian Church and President of Greater Boston Interfaith Organization (GBIO), join the graduates of Class #26 in the Moving from Debt to Assets program at a ceremony held last week at Bethel AME Church in Jamaica Plain. (Photo courtesy of Greater Boston Interfaith Organization)

Feng Chen and Brandi Sutton of Roxbury were two of 20 graduates of the Jewish Vocational Service’s (JVS) Culinary Arts training program. They recently celebrated graduating from the program at a ceremony at Madison Park High School in Boston.
(Photo courtesy of Jewish Vocational Services)

Air Force Reserve Airman Moira E. Erilus recently graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. She is the daughter of Raynold and Cleane Erilus of West Roxbury. Erilus is a 2004 graduate of Boston Arts Academy. (Photo courtesy of Army & Air Force Hometown News Service)

(L-R) Mike Vance, VP, ABCD Inc.; Natascha Saunders, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Career Services and Lecturer, Boston University; Dr. Linda Edmonds Turner, Urban College of Boston (UCB) President; Nancy Rousseau, UCB Career Center Counselor; Ron Marlow, state Assistant Secretary of Access and Opportunity, and Mark Isenburg, VP for Workforce Development & Technology Services, ABCD, Inc. at last month’s Urban College of Boston Career Center Grand Opening Reception on Dec. 10, 2009. (Don West photo)

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