The USPS is honoring Phillis Wheatley, an important literary figure in Colonial America.

Once enslaved and long overlooked, Phillis Wheatley’s words helped shape American history. Now, her legacy is being honored ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Jackson State University (JSU) will expand its cultural reach as a partnering institution with “At the Vanguard: Making and Saving History at Historically Black Colleges and ...

Charleston, Columbia and Greenville, SC, honored the life of Black poet Phillis Wheatley on Jan. 30 with a commemorative USPS stamp and a day in her honor.

The U.S. Postal Service held a first-day-of-issue stamp dedication to commemorate the life of Phillis Wheatley at the historic Old South Meeting House in Boston..

The United States Postal Service will issue a commemorative Forever stamp honoring Phillis Wheatley, the first published African American poet and author of a book in the American Colonies, as the ...

Wheatley, who is known as the “mother of African American literature,” will join the company of Booker T. Washington and Harriet Tubman in the stamp series. The United States Postal Service has ...

The College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center on Friday will debut a new U.S. Postal Service stamp inspired by Phillis Wheatley, a once-enslaved woman who became America’s first published African ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country’s first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award. David Waldstreicher’s “The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: ...

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