Boston Scenes

An unidentified man smiles as he waves two American flags while celebrating the inauguration of Barack Obama as the nation’s first African American president in Washington, D.C., last Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. (Lolita Parker Jr. photo)

Local music producers Tony Rose (left), Prince Charles Alexander (right) and Maurice Starr (not shown) were recently recognized by City Councilor Charles C. Yancey (center) for their significant contributions to the Boston music scene and their ascent to success in the music industry. (Photo courtesy of the Office of City Councilor Charles C. Yancey)

An unidentified attendee at the inauguration of President Barack Obama holds up a sign featuring a picture of the president and first lady Michelle Obama that refers to them as “America’s First Couple” during the festivities on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, in Washington, D.C. Obama memorabilia was everywhere in the nation’s capital last week. (Don West photo, www.donwestfoto.com)

(From left): Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) Chief of Medicine Dr. Mark Zeidel, Dimock Community Health Center President and CEO Ruth Ellen Fitch, BIDMC President and CEO Paul Levy, state Sen. Sonia Chang-Díaz and Dimock Chief Medical Officer Dr. Myechia Minter-Jordan pose for a photo during a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the completed construction of The Dimock Center’s full-service pharmacy, to which BIDMC provided financial and logistical support. The pharmacy is expected to be open for business in February. (Photo courtesy of The Dimock Center)

(From left): The Rev. Gregory G. Groover Sr., pastor of the Historic Charles Street A.M.E. Church; Dr. Joseph Aoun, president of Northeastern University; the Rev. Herbert L. Eddy, presiding elder of the Boston-Hartford District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Boston Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Carol R. Johnson pose for a photo during Aoun’s recent visit to Charles Street A.M.E. (KC Bailey photo)

At the Union of Minority Neighborhoods’ (UMN) “CORI Sealing Day” event, held Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009, at Northeastern University, more than 150 applications were filed as trained volunteers from Greater Boston Legal Services, the Massachusetts Alliance to Reform CORI, the Boston Workers Alliance and Northeastern University helped process the sealing of applicants’ Criminal Offender Record Information. (From left): Makis Antioulatos, UMN Executive Director Horance Small, Catherine Hennessey, Amara Nwosu, Sean Pelzer, Aaron Tanaka. (Tony Irving photo)