Akinlabi Mason plays catch with his two sons Elijah, 8, (right) and Paul, 9, (center) at Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, June 7, 2011, before taking them off to school. Mr. Mason spends quality time with his two boys, helping to teach them the fundamentals of baseball as he shepherds them through a season of Little League and beyond. In recent years the sport of baseball is experiencing a big decline of African Americans in the game. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
Akinlabi Mason greets his younger son Elijah, 8, after he scored a run as his older son Paul, 9, looks on during a Capitol Hill Little League game in June at Daniel A. Payne Elementary School in Washington. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)
In this July 16, 2010 photo, members of the religious group Minyan Tehillah, Gershon Marx, right, of Somerville, and Lieba Savitt of Somerville, holding her one-year-old son Eliyah, prepare for a Saturday morning Kabbalat Shabbat worship service at Harvard Radcliffe Hillel, in Cambridge, Mass. The group is an "independent minyan," and dozens of these unaffiliated Jewish worship communities have sprung up in the past decade, mixing elements of the mainstream denominations while answering to none of them. A Torah scroll is in the foreground. (AP Photo/Lisa Poole)
