Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic ...

In honor of Women's History Month, we asked booksellers across five local woman-owned bookstores to share their favorite ...

It covers the first edition of Phillis Wheatley’s most renowned work — “Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral,” a poetry anthology. This was the first published work of an enslaved person or ...

The two received their freedom from their respective owners, and they each knew George Washington.First, Phillis Wheatley was born in Africa in 1753 or 1754, but […] Skip to content All Sections ...

Black women were no exception, and in 1895, the Phyllis Wheatley Club was founded in Nashville, TN. Named after the first African American poet to have her works published in the U.S, the club’s ...

In 1765, when Phillis Wheatley was about eleven years old, she wrote a letter to Reverend Samson Occum, a Mohegan Indian and an ordained Presbyterian minister. Despite the difference in their ages ...

For more than a century, the Phyllis Wheatley Community Center in Minneapolis has been a place to help members of the African American community navigate life. "Phyllis Wheatley has always been ...

Monroeville resident Susan Frazier Delaney is no stranger to dressing like well-known historical figures, particularly strong ...