Boston Scenes

At the University of Massachusetts-Boston’s annual Robert H. Quinn Breakfast, held Thursday, March 26, 2009, UMass-Boston Chancellor J. Keith Motley (left) presented an award named after former Massachusetts House Speaker Robert H. Quinn (right) to Association of Haitian Women in Boston Executive Director Carline Desire (second from left). Motley also presented the Chancellor’s Award for Longstanding Community Commitment and Service to State Street Corporation Executive Vice President and Director of Community Affairs George A. Russell Jr. (Harry Brett photo)

(From left): State Senate President Therese Murray, Project Bread Executive Director Ellen Parker and former state Senate President Robert E. Travaglini, chair of the board of Project Bread, pose for a photo following the recent Walk for Hunger kickoff event at the Colonnade Hotel Boston. Murray gave the keynote address to 350 leaders and expected participants in the May 3, 2009, walk. (Photo courtesy of Project Bread)

Film star Terrence Howard (left) was in Boston recently as the ambassador for the Entertainment Industry Foundation and National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance. He visited Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where he met with staff, including researcher Levi Garraway, M.D. Ph.D. Afterward, Howard went to Madison Park Village, where he met people active in raising colon cancer awareness through the “Open Doors to Health” program. (Photo courtesy of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)

This past weekend’s Mass Appeal Mayhem and FirstHoops Network Basketball Jamboree and Summer Resource Fair brought together hundreds of Boston-area parents, participants and spectators for fun and games at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center at Roxbury Community College. (Cagen Luse photo)

Legendary jazz drummer and Roxbury native Roy Haynes “takes the cake” from Berklee College of Music faculty member Christiane Karam during a celebration of his 84th birthday held Thursday, March 26, 2009, at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston. Haynes and music critic Bob Young were honored at Berklee’s 23rd Annual International Folk Music Festival for their support of international students and education. (Photo courtesy of Berklee College of Music)

Filmmakers Judy Richardson (left) and Bestor Cram field questions after a recent screening of “Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968” held at the Harvard Film Archive in Cambridge. The film tells the story of three black students killed at South Carolina State College in Orangeburg, S.C., in 1968. (Lolita Parker Jr. photo)

 

Aretha Franklin, the legendary “Queen of Soul,” recently celebrated her 67th birthday at a party held at Seldom Blues, a jazz restaurant in Detroit. Franklin was presented with a special two-tiered lemon birthday cake designed in the shape of the now-famous grey-bowed hat she wore to sing at the inauguration of President Barack Obama. (Photo courtesy of GQ Media & Public Relations)

 

Matthew Knowles, president of World Music International and the guiding force behind his daughter Beyoncé, was at Berklee College of Music on Thursday, March 26, 2009, sharing his experiences on the concert touring business with students as his daughter was beginning her world tour in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Knowles was part of high-level music executives who assembled for the annual “Envisioning 21st Century Music Business Models” symposium that addresses music business trends, sponsored by Berklee’s Music Business/Management Department. (Phil Farnsworth photo)