Boston Scenes

Members of the Trinidad & Tobago Social Club briefly stop before the parade turns a corner during the Caribbean Festival held last Saturday in Roxbury. The club has been dazzling Festival spectators with their elaborate costumes, soca and calypso music in the Carnival since 1988. (Shelly Runyon photo)

Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz, Dennis Benzan, Kessen Green, City Councilor Felix Arroyo, Katherine Patrick, Tito Jackson, City Councilor Mike Ross and Omo Moses (l-r), pose during The Young People’s Project benefit at Merengue Restaurant last week. (Ernesto Arroyo photo)

Presented by the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research, “Locked Out Locked Up Black Men In America,” was held at the Old Whaling Church in Edgartown, Mass. and hosted by Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Lolita Parker Jr. photo)

In one of the longstanding traditions, several “polar bears” make their way along the Inkwell for an early morning workout. (Lolita Parker Jr. photo)

Three Boston teens participating in the MLK Summer Scholars program were recognized for their award-winning “Making the Dream Real” compositions in the program’s concluding life skills workshop. They posed for a picture with motivational speaker Travis Roy, known for his perseverance and success following a hockey accident that left him paralyzed, who was the featured presenter at the workshop. Pictured (from l-r) are Takia Coles of Roxbury, Travis Roy, Jaquelina Fontes of Mattapan, Armando Cruz of Dorchester and Tom Crohan, director of Corporate Social Responsibility at John Hancock. MLK Summer Scholars, the country’s largest corporate summer jobs program for teens, provided jobs and life skills workshops for 650 participants. For more information on the program, visit www.mlksummerscholars.com.

More than 100 parents, students and educational advocates joined the Boston United for Students Coalition at Boston Public School (BPS) headquarters on Tuesday as the Boston Teachers Union contract expired. The Coalition is demanding that the Boston Public School Committee and the Boston Teachers Union include and implement major reforms in the new teachers’ contract to achieve significant improvements in the education of BPS students.  (Photo courtesy of Kelley Chunn)

Craig and Macauley Chairman William F. Macauley and Managing Partner Christopher J. Panos (far right) celebrate the Bill Macauley Nature Day with campers at Mass Audubon’s Moose Hill Wildlife Sanctuary. (Photo courtesy of Mass Audubon Society)