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The first African Festival and the annual India Day in Worcester highlighted pride, purpose, and goals for the future.

The first African Festival and the annual India Day in Worcester highlighted pride, purpose, and goals for the future.

First African Festival on Worcester Common organized by MOAD will share all the beautiful experiences from our countries

Music a big part of the festivities.

Nine Things To Do suggestions include Master Singers, Arts Worcester, Shane Profitt, Frederick Douglass reading, Katharine Dain ...

WORCESTER — Sixteen community-based organizations in the city have signed a letter asking the city to shelve plans to adopt police "crime forecasting" technology that they say will disproportionately harm communities of color.  The groups that signed the letter urged the city not to purchase ShotSpotter Connect, a technology that would use Police Department crime data to automatically create targeted patrols.  The technology has come under fire since City Manager Edward M. Augustus Jr. ask...

More than a dozen Massachusetts organizations call on Worcester to reconsider ShotSpotter Connect contract MassLive.com 3/9/2021 Michael Bonner, masslive.com © Michael Bonner | mbonner@masslive.com/masslive.com/TNS Worcesters City Council chambers within the Esther Howland Room inside Worcester City Hall. Fifteen organizations in Worcester and one statewide signed a letter addressed to officials in the city on Monday calling on them to reconsider its contract with ShotSpott...