It will begin by focusing on Olaudah Equiano, one of the most famous Black abolitionists of the 18th Century, whose powerful ...

The legacies of Black women continue to be celebrated in named and traditional memorials, by generations of memorializers and ...

Deciding who is the most proud of being from Pennsylvania is tough. Kevin Hart was so ready to share his pick for the Super Bowl LIX that he recorded a video with two eagles. Eve has the “Philly, ...

Black History Month is here, and during February, WYFF News 4 Today will feature a Black History "Fact of the Day." ...

As former Dallas City Council member and museum board chair Vonciel Jones Hill likes to say, “This is the house that Dr ... original poems by Phillis Wheatley and volumes that once belonged ...

Elected official for the Ohio House of Representatives ... The organization was later renamed Phillis Wheatley Association of Cleveland in honor of the first African-American with a published ...

And it was a slave revolt in the antebellum South, where the house slaves got after their master with their ... one hundred fifty years ago. When Phillis Wheatley’s book of poems had to be verified by ...

BOSTON — Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey on Monday signed an executive order creating a position of poet ...

The poet laureate will serve as an ambassador for the arts to promote creative expression and inspire writers across the ...

Famous poets have come out of Massachusetts since the 1700s. They include Phillis Wheatley, who is considered to be one of the first Black and enslaved people to publish a book of poems.

THE often-forgotten contributions of Black Georgian and Victorian people will be told in an exhibition about the fight to end transatlantic slavery and its aftermath. It will explore "how African ...