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 ...

The Phyllis Wheatley Community Center is not only a living ... Marian Anderson, the renowned opera singer, stayed there. W.E.B. Du Bois, Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes did, too.