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 legendary Freedom Trail in Boston is all about the ladies during March, which is Women's History Month. The Freedom Trail ...

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

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 ...

Many Black women writers have and continue to shape this movement. Writers like Phillis Wheatley, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, and Toni Morrison played significant roles in shaping ...

The Phyllis Wheatley Club of Colored Women, Buffalo’s first NACW affiliate was founded in 1899. The PWC began a long tradition of establishing and supporting self-help and advocacy ...

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 ...

From the early writings of Phillis Wheatley and Emily Dickinson to the groundbreaking works by Toni Morrison and Louise Erdrich (my favorite author), women writers have consistently pushed boundaries.