May 31, 2007 — Vol. 42, No. 42
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Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week:


Massachusetts Department of Public Health Commissioner John Auerbach (second from left) congratulates youth filmmakers Shanaya Coke, Kennedy Colson and Dwayne Edwards “on a job well done.” They were among the top 10 finalists at an anti-tobacco film-shorts contest co-sponsored by The Medical Foundation and WCVB-TV Channel 5.

Chief Justice for Administration and Management Robert A. Mulligan congratulates Sessions Clerk Dawn Kelley of the Roxbury Division of the Boston Municipal Court on her selection as Trial Court Employee of the Year last week. She joined the department in 1978. (Photo courtesy of the Supreme Judicial Court)

The Second Annual Roxbury Community College (RCC) Scholarship Breakfast took place at the Algonquin Club recently. RCC student Amanda Schaefer (center) was awarded the Boston Chapter Girl Friend Scholarship. Also present were (left to right) Attorney Ralph Martin, chair of the Boston Chamber of Commerce and a featured guest speaker at the event; Boston Girl Friend Dorothy Brannon; Schaefer; Boston Girl Friend Dr. Cynthia Carter and RCC Executive Officer for Development Karen H. Walker. (Photo courtesy of Strategis)

Brig. Gen. Robert M. Radin (left) presents a U.S. flag to Conroy Wright, father of Sgt. Gregroy A. Wright, of Boston, Mass., at burial services held at Arlington National Cemetery on Jan. 26, 2007. Wright died Jan. 13 in Muqdadiyah, Iraq. He was one of six Bostonians killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan recognized by Mayor Thomas M. Menino during Memorial Day. The others were Marine Lance Cpl. Alexander S. Arredondo, Army Capt. David S. Connolly, Army Chief Warrant Officer Kyran E. Kennedy, Army Sgt. Daniel J. Londono and Army Spc. Edgardo Zayas. (AP photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

The family members of Rosa Parks recently joined the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts and students and teachers at the Dr. Catherine Ellison-Rosa Parks Early Education School in Mattapan for the first anniversary celebration recognizing the naming of the school in honor of those two legendary women. Before attending a special multicultural assembly program to welcome the Parks family, Rhea McCauley, one of Parks’ nieces and the painter of the family portrait of the civil rights icon that will be displayed inside the school, took time to meet with and read to students. (Don West photo)

Harvard Law School Professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. (second from right) was the keynote speaker at a recent breakfast gathering in Boston Private Bank and Trust Company’s “social investing series.” The event highlighted the work of The City-Wide Dialogues on Race and Ethnicity. Pictured from left: Michael Norman, community outreach assistant at the City-Wide Dialogues; Jeff Stone, director of the Dialogues; Ogletree; and Roscoe Thomas, board chair of the Dialogues. For more information about the breakfast seminar and the Dialogues, please see our story on pg. 1. (Mori Insinger photo)
Barbara Sullivan dances in front of a portrait of Yolanda King during a memorial service held in honor of the deceased eldest child of Martin Luther King Jr. last Thursday in Atlanta. Yolanda King died on May 15 in California after she collapsed and could not be revived. She was 51 years old. (AP photo/John Bazemore)
“Joy Comes in the Morning” is part of a collection of paintings titled “Life Dance: New Works by Laura Palmer Edwards.” The Gallery at the Piano Factory is showing Palmer’s work beginning June 10. The exhibit will be on display through July 8. The opening reception will be held Sunday, June 10, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. and the closing reception will take place Sunday, July 8, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. (Photo courtesy of Laura Palmer Edwards)

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