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 oppression and powerful politicians like Thomas Jefferson questioning her ...

KCPS hasn’t had a bond measure since 1967 and said that it would help with over $1 billion in deferred maintenance and ...

The Freedom Trail Foundation is promoting its annual Revolutionary Women Tours, which are running until the end of the month.

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

Black women in colonial Boston fought for justice and shaped the city’s history. Their resistance, resilience, and legacy ...

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.