Despite her literary success, Phillis Wheatley faced numerous challenges in her later years. She was granted freedom after the publication of her book in 1774 but struggled financially.

In The Trouble of Color, Johns Hopkins History Professor Martha Jones explores racial identity by digging into her own family ...

The authors of the celebrated novels ‘Wandering Stars’ and ‘Martyr!’ are each other’s valued early readers. “We both wrote ...

Van Halen, with Collective Soul opening, was the last band to take the stage at the arena, months before it was torn down.

A timely new exhibit surveys the work of a committed champion of the oppressed and marginalized.

Wheatley, named after an ex-slave who was the first woman and first Black writer to publish a book of poems in the ... Brackenridge High School took on the Phillis Wheatley High School name ...

Thomas Jefferson wasn’t only the primary author of the Declaration of Independence; he also wrote a book. From the title ... He was confronted with the poetry of Phillis Wheatley, a former slave.

On April 8 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., the museum will present an online symposium titled “The Feast of Genius and the Play of Art: The Legacies and Communities of Phillis Wheatley Peters ... American to ...

Since 2013, Triad Cultural Arts has worked to preserve an architecturally significant shotgun house as a symbol of African ...