Phillis Wheatley, the first African American author to publish a book of poetry, will be honored during a first-day-of-issue event Jan. 29 at the Old South Meeting House in Boston.

The United States Postal Service will issue a commemorative Forever stamp honoring Phillis Wheatley, the first published ...

The United States Postal Service has announced a new Forever stamp honoring Phillis Wheatley, the first African American to ...

The U.S. Postal Service honors Phillis Wheatley, the first African American author to publish a book, with the 49th Black Heritage stamp.

Wheatley, who is known as the “mother of African American literature,” will join the company of Booker T. Washington and ...

The first-day-of-issue event for the Phillis Wheatley Black Heritage stamp will take place on January 29 in Boston.

The U.S. Postal Service will honor Phillis Wheatley, the first published African American poet, with the 49th Black Heritage ...

Phillis Wheatley became one of the first published African American poets. This post explores her life as a slave and her time after being emancipated. Respected by everyone from countless historical ...

The dramatic play “Phillis in Boston” centers around the events set on the same ship of the Boston Tea Party, when Phillis Wheatley returns to Boston with her first published books of poetry. Written ...

Before Phillis Wheatley published her renowned collection Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral in 1773, she’d had to withstand an interrogation by 18 men deemed “the most respectable ...

The United States Postal Service (USPS) is honoring Phillis Wheatley—the first published African American poet—with a Black ...