Boston Scenes 6/5/14

Champions for Children Gala, a fundraiser for Boston Renaissance Charter Public School was recently held at the Taj Boston. The event was attended by over 300 people and featured a dinner reception, a live auction, an awards presentation and a special performance by the Voices of Renaissance Chorus. (l-r) Bud Moseley, Roger F. Harris, J. Keith Motley, Joan Wallace-Benjamin, Richard Galvin, Milton Benjamin and Albert Holland.

Cambridge College held its 2014 commencement at Blue Hills Bank Pavilion in Boston on June 1. Honorary doctorates were given to El Mundo newspaper founder Alberto Vasallo Jr., Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Roderick L. Ireland and former Congressman Barney Frank. Pictured (l-r) are Vasallo Jr., Cambridge College Board Chair Derek Davis, Ireland, Cambridge College President Deborah Jackson and Frank.

Members of the Prince Hall Grand Lodge Jurisdiction of Massachusetts gathered with members of the Arlington Historic Society and members of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts to pay homage to the memory of the men that are buried in the Prince Hall Mystic Cemetery in Arlington, Mass., and also to thanks those who work to maintain the historic site property.

Roxbury Technology Corp. CEO Beth Williams stood outside the headquarters of her company with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at a rally on June 2 to increase wages and to close the pay gap between men and women.