On Saturday, the 16th, the Friends of the North End celebrated its 45th annual reunion. 166 boyhood friends from Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Maryland and California assembled at the Sons of Italy Hall in Winchester to relive growing up in their cherished neighborhood. As has been their custom since the Read More…
The Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism & Special Events, the Museum of African American History and the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (BYSO) will present a free tribute concert in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday, January 17, 2011, at 1:00pm at Faneuil Hall. The program will feature a moving selection of classical music, spirituals and freedom songs performed by the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras’ Intensive Community Program, conducted by Marta Zurad.
Armenian Heritage Foundation’s The K. George and Carolann S. Najarian, M.D. Inaugural Lecture on Human Rights – an endowed public program of the Foundation, sponsor of Armenian Heritage Park on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, Boston.
The Inaugural Lecture is in recognition of the ground breaking of Armenian Heritage Park on the Greenway in 2010.
Date & Time: Thursday, September 23, 2010 at 7pm
Place: Faneuil Hall, Boston, Massachusetts
Keynote Speaker: Kerry Kennedy
Human Rights Activist; Founder of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, Washington, D.C.; Author of Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who are Changing Our World
Opening Remarks: Peter Balakian
Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor of the Humanities, Colgate University; Author of The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response – A History of International Human Rights and Forgotten Heroes
Free and open to the public, the lecture is offered in partnership with The Bostonian Society, academic institutions and human rights organizations.
