Officials have refined the details of how the school district would spend a $474 million bond that Jackson County voters will ...

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 ...

In the early decades of the 20th century, when Black writers and performers visited Minneapolis, they needed a place to stay.

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 ...

Phillis Wheatley Elementary is a public school located in Apopka, FL, which is in a large suburb setting. The student population of Phillis Wheatley Elementary is 403 and the school serves PK-5.

Phillis Wheatley Elementary is a public school located in Kansas City, MO, which is in a large city setting. The student population of Phillis Wheatley Elementary is 391 and the school serves PK-6.

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 ...