Boston Scenes

Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week

Former U.S. Magistrate Judge Joyce London Alexander (right) and her husband, former Tuskegee, Ala., Mayor Johnny Ford, pose for a photo at the recent gala celebrating Alexander’s Feb. 1 retirement. The event capped Alexander’s career as the longest-serving magistrate judge in the history of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. (Sandy Middlebrooks photo)

(From left): Wellness coach Leslie Salmon Jones, New England Cable News reporter Latoyia Edwards, Andrea Baptiste of Healthworks at Codman Square, Body By Brandy 4 Kidz founder and owner Brandy Cruthird and chef Didi Emmons of Haley House Bakery Café hold up copies of Exhale: Tips for Healthy Living, a new magazine from Banner Publications, at a launch party for the publication held at Hibernian Hall in Dudley Square on Saturday, April 25, 2009. (Don West photo)

Eleven-year-old Linda Qin (left) from Jackson Mann Elementary School in Allston and 10-year-old Antonio Weathers from Lee Elementary School in Dorchester took the New York Stock Exchange stage on April 20 to participate in the National America SCORES Poetry Slam! along with youth from 12 other cities across the nation. America SCORES is an after-school soccer, literacy and service learning program that, each spring, chooses 24 students out of more than 6,000 to perform original poetry for an audience of hundreds at the New York Stock Exchange. (Photo courtesy of America SCORES New England)

Tomell Kelly (left), a fifth-grade student at the Haley Elementary School in Roslindale, listens to Olive Henson Fulton describe the life and accomplishments of her uncle, Matthew Henson, one of the first explorers to travel to the North Pole, during a visit to the school earlier this month. This spring, fifth-grade students at the Haley school are learning about African Americans’ role in maritime history as part of an innovative year-long experiential learning curriculum. (Photo courtesy of Boston Public Schools)