Boston Scenes

Local and Culturally Relevant Events this week

Beverly Morgan-Welch, executive director of the Museum of African American History (left), legendary orthopedic surgeon Augustus White III, M.D. (center), and Jean McGuire, executive director of the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity Inc., smile in front of a bust of Frederick Douglass as part of a celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day held at Faneuil Hall on Monday, Jan. 19, 2009. (Tony Irving photo)

Frieda Garcia (left) and Milton Benjamin (right), advisors of the Commonwealth Compact, compare notes with Compact director Bob Turner on how best to make Boston and Massachusetts a more welcoming and inclusive place for people of color to live and work. The Compact includes senior leaders from the government, business, academic and nonprofit sectors, committed to creating a positive climate for diversity across the state. (Don West photo, www.donwestfoto.com)

Filmmaker Spike Lee (right) and wife Tonya Lewis Lee join Harvard professor Charles J. Ogletree Jr. for a celebration of his human rights work, held at the National Archives in Washington and sponsored by Bingham McCutchen LLP. (Don West photo, www.donwestfoto.com)

Olga Dumnott waves her flag in pride and celebration of the Obama inauguration. (Tony Irving photo)

A television reporter from New England Cable News interviews Mamie Dawson in the crowd at the Strand Theatre. (Tony Irving photo)

Among the many dignitaries present at the honoring of Professor Charles Ogletree of Harvard Law School by the law firm on Bingham McCutchen were Boston lawyers Fletcher “flash” Wiley (left) and Max Stern (right) with the former Mayor of Washington D.C. Sharon Pratt Kelly. (Don West photo, www.donwestfoto.com)