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Jim Ayres, the president and CEO of the $200-million Greater Worcester Community Foundation, resigned from his role on Friday, becoming GWCF's second leader in just over a year to make an abrupt exit from the organization.

Viktor Orban’s Hungary has a lot to offer them.

The renowned Black scholar Adolph Reed opposes the politics of anti-racism, describing it as a cover for capitalism.

Jim Ayres took the helm as CEO and president at the Greater Worcester Community Foundation at the start of the new year, replacing Barbara Fields, who resigned as head of the organization in March after 19 months in the position. Ayres relocated to Worcester from Western Massachusetts, most recently serving as the founder and principal of the organizational development consulting practice Strategies for Collaborative Impact and Justice in Easthampton.

We would understand more if the work of historian Tyler Stovall were better known

The Greater Worcester Community Foundation has named nonprofit consultant and executive Jim Ayres as its new president and CEO, the organization announced on Monday.

What gets lost when we view the American past as primarily a story about capitalism? 

Often-cited examples of redlining and police shootings don’t tell such a simple story.

Arguing With Racists Epigraph: “Unhappy the land that has no heroes.” “No, unhappy the land that needs heroes.”~  (Brecht) Preface. St Augustine said he thinks he knows what time is but if someone were to ask him “What is time?”, he would find it difficult to answer. So it seems with the word “race”. We think we know its meaning and use the term with casual confidence. In literary theory, the Russian Formalists drew attention to the fact that language is the medium of literatur...

Ken Burns Still Has Faith in a Shared American Story By David Marchese It cannot be said that Ken Burns is an unambitious filmmaker. He is, after all, a director who has spent 40 years making documentaries about truly foundational American subjects: the Civil War, Thomas Jefferson, jazz, the Roosevelts, baseball, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Vietnam War, country music. The list goes on. (And on. Think of an iconic American historical figure or event, and there’s a half-decent ...