Boston Scenes

Boston Municipal Court Judge Edward Redd received a portrait in his honor after he recently announced his retirement from the bench. His wife, Dr. Shirley Redd, stood by his side during a ceremony at the Roxbury District Court. (KC Bailey photo)

The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School, headed by Prof. Charles J. Ogletree Jr., staged its annual Vineyard forum Wednesday, entitled Between the Lines: Race and Gender in Sports in the 21st Century. Panelists included (L-R) First row: Ogletree, Renee Powell, Dr. Jocelyn F. Benson. Second row: Wyomia Tyus, William Rhoden, Richard Michelson, Dr. Wilbert (Skeeter) McClure, Judge Jacqueline Frazier-Lyde. Third row: Tom (Satch) Sanders, Dr. John Carlos, Harry Edwards, Dr. George Koonce, Kenneth Shropshire. (Lolita Parker Jr. photo)

(L-R) President of Mt. Washington Bank Ed Merritt; Jackson Kelley (age 13) and Tristan Kelley (age 10), the creators of non-profit Backpacks For New Beginnings (BP4NB); Councillor-At-Large John Connolly and Councillor Matt O’Malley. BP4NB is dedicated  to providing necessary school supplies and backpacks to underprivileged children. Since 2009, BP4NB has donated 850 new backpacks with school supplies. Tristan and Jackson raise all funds by themselves, and 100 percent of proceeds are used to purchase new backpacks and school supplies. Jackson and Tristan were awarded a check of $500 and 200 backpacks from Mt. Washington Bank at the annual movie night in West Roxbury.

Jordan Thomas and Bri-An Hall, both 7, proudly show off new backpacks they received at the United Sisters of Color’s “Operation Backpack” event at the Shelburne Community Center in Roxbury on Saturday, August 18th. The back-to-school giveaway provided much-needed school supplies for over 300 Boston families. (Eric Esteves photo)

Dudley Square’s Common Thread presented its first annual Haley House SummerFeast, a gospel jamboree and jerk chicken cook-off contest in the Haley House Bakery Café parking lot.  The contest for Best Jerk Chicken was won by Pepper Pot Restaurant at 208 Dudley Street in Roxbury.  (Photo courtesy of Haley House)

The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) held a forum “Hijacking Democracy: Voter Suppression and the 2012 Elections”
on Martha’s Vineyard over the weekend. Featured speakers were (L-R) Host Ken Edelin, Moderator Callie Crossley, Harvard Law School Professor Lani Guinier, Acting President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Debo P. Adegbile (Don West | blackwire.us photo)