WORCESTER ― The words of abolitionist Frederick Douglass' famed 1852 address, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" rung out through Worcester Common on Thursday afternoon, read by dozens of ...

WORCESTER — At noon, July 1, on Worcester Common, there will be "no bells and whistles," said Cedric Arno. "No rockets going off. It's just people reading." However, "It's a real dramatic reading," ...