SOUTH BOSTON — 800 guests attended the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts’ Centennial Gala on Thursday, September 26, 2019 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. Darnell Williams, the League’s president and CEO, welcomed the guests who celebrated the League’s mission of helping people “overcome racial, social barriers, economic inequities, sexual and domestic violence to employment and economic development opportunities.” All photos by Bill Brett

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DUXBURY — More than 500 guest celebrated under a large tent on Duxbury Beach on the evening of Saturday, September 7, 2019, to support the Duxbury Beach Reservation, Inc., and mark the centennial of a dozen or so Duxbury residents coming together to buy the beach so that it would be preserved for future generations. The event raised $450,000. Longtime Duxbury resident Jim Fagan, the evening’s emcee, thanked the Duxbury residents for their continued support.…

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HULL — 200 guests attended Sunset Point Camp’s centennial celebration that was held on June 22, 2019, at the Camp in Hull. Don Rodman was the event’s chairman. Run by Catholic Charities, Sunset Point Camp has, for 100 years, provided a dream vacation at the seashore to over 40,000 low-income, at-risk children aged 6-13 from Greater Boston and the South Shore without regard for their race, nationality, or religious affiliation. Nearly 450 city-based boys and…

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BOSTON — 150 guests attended the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts’ reception to mark the start of its 100th anniversary celebrations. The event was held on Tuesday, March 19, 2019, at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center was host by Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts President and CEO Darnell Williams and David M. Gibbons, executive director of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority. Also in attendance were Governor Charlie Baker, Speaker of the Massachusetts House Robert…

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