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 ...

New Orleans neighbors express concern over dogs running at students at bus stop on General Meyer One woman said her ...

The YWCA's Knoxville group organizes the event each year as a way to bring people together to honor diversity and work toward ...

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 ...

So they stayed at Phyllis Wheatley House. The organization, now known as the Phyllis Wheatley Community Center and named after an 18th-century enslaved woman who became a well-known poet ...

The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country’s first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award.

This week, we’re celebrating Phyllis Wheatley, who was the first well-known black female poet in the western world and the first African-American to publish a book. Phyllis’s life started out ...

Like Phillis Wheatley's portrait by Scipio Moorhead, an enslaved African [link], Reason's design challenged the idea that blacks were incapable of producing creative and artistic work.