Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

click image for close-up A rare portrait of Phillis Wheatley shows her facing forward, wearing an evening dress and jewelry. The portrait appeared in Revue des Colonies in Paris between 1834 and 1842.

Multiple artists and organizations have collaborated to paint murals at various locations of the Phillis Wheatley Elementary ...

New Orleans neighbors express concern over dogs running at students at bus stop on General Meyer One woman said her grandchild and other students ran for cover Tuesday morning, trying to avoid dogs at ...

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 ...