James Mace’s name should be known to every educated Ukrainian today. It is so largely due to the efforts of Den/The Day’s editor-in-chief and other staffers. Actually, it was Larysa Ivshyna who offered editorship of this newspaper’s English-language version to the outstanding researcher of the Holodomor, who found himself rejected for official positions first in the US and then in Ukraine. It was Den/The Day that published Mace’s seminal contributions, including his unforgettable column which proposed to hold annual commemorations of the artificial famines’ victims by lighting candles in the windows of our homes on designated days. Our publishing house released two books of Mace’s contributions.
This newspaper finds an opportunity every year to recall on its pages the name and important thoughts of this outstanding Cherokee Indian who devoted his life to the research of our national tragedy and its consequences which he called “the post-genocide syndrome.” Moreover, our editor-in-chief has established the James Mace Civic Stance in Journalism Award which has been awarded eight times already and has become a real media event. Den/The Day has always insisted that Ukrainians should display active gratitude for those who contributed to the development of our nation. Our history section editor Ihor Siundiukov covered this very topic lately. Finally, the day of gratitude came for Mace as well, for the city council of Brovary, in the vicinity of Kyiv, decided at its last meeting of 2015 to rename 70 streets in the city, and new names include Dzheimsa Meisa Street.
