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

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 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 ...

As of Oct. 1, BYU students can apply for the prestigious Wheatley Institute scholarship to become 2026 Wheatley Scholars. The Jack and Lois Wheatley Endowed Leadership Scholarship program provides ...

JAMES WHEATLEY, THE FOUNDER OF CELEBRATION ARTS. AFTER ALL THESE YEARS. YOU COME DRAGGING THIS IN ON ME NOW. REPORTER WHILE HE MAY NOT BE IN THE SPOTLIGHT FOR THIS PRODUCTION, JAMES WHEATLEY IS IN THE ...

A statement released by the Farnham family today reads: “Our family are devastated at the loss of our friend. We also obviously feel for his family as well. With his passing so many people have lost a ...