The Phillis Wheatley Community Center (PWCC) is pleased to announce the election of new officers to its board of directors and the addition of two staff members. As the center ...
Phillis Wheatley-Peters was kidnapped as a child from West Africa and sold into slavery in Boston. Despite systemic ...
Staff Reports The annual community favorite Spring Carnival will pack the day with non‐ stop fun and community spirit this ...
The Freedom Trail Foundation is promoting its annual Revolutionary Women Tours, which are running until the end of the month.
landmark achievements of Black pioneers Phillis Wheatley and Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler, prolific writings of Abigail Adams and Louisa May Alcott, dynamic speeches of Margaret Sanger and Susan B.
For Black History Month and Women’s History Month, the retired teacher has dressed as the Egyptian queen Nefertiti and American author Phillis Wheatley ... the 10th of 13 children.
Phillis Wheatley became one of the first published ... s Negro woman” resisted an attempt to force her to bear children for her enslaver’s profit. She physically kicked away the man forced ...
A timely new exhibit surveys the work of a committed champion of the oppressed and marginalized.
Writers like Phillis Wheatley, Georgia Douglas Johnson ... a Black woman who makes the hard choice of taking her own child’s life rather than seeing her returned to enslavement.