For more than a century, the Phyllis Wheatley Community Center in Minneapolis has been a place to help members of the African ...

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 ...