Boston’s teens in print Oct 22, 2009
BOSTON IS known for its writers, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Phillis Wheatley to the more than 75 authors who will appear at the inaugural Boston Book Festival in Copley Square on Saturday. But there are thousands of other writers who are as diligent, creative, thoughtful, and articulate as their more famous peers. (Boston Globe)
Machu Picchu Tops Threatened Landmarks List Oct 7, 2009
The fund said two sites in New Orleans, St. Louis Cemetery No. 2 and the Phillis Wheatley Elementary School, face continuing challenges following Hurricane Katrina, which devastated the area in 2005. U.S. sites on the watch list also include architect Frank Lloyd Wright's home Taliesin in Spring Green, Wis. (KSBW 8, CA)
Priceless black cultural artifacts to go on exhibit Aug 21, 2009
One of the most treasured is the first book published in America by African-born Phillis Wheatley, "Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral." It is signed and dated 1773, when she was a slave in Boston. Hodson said a few years after Ms. Clayton bought it for $600 from a New York dealer, he asked to buy it back. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
American History Chapter Books for ... Jul 26, 2009
My Name is Phillis Wheatley. A fictionalized account of the life of eighteenth-century Black poet Phillis Wheatley, My Name is Phillis Wheatley takes readers back in time to 1760s Africa when young Penda Wane is learning to be a griot, a praise-singer, for her family clan in the kingdom of Fouta Toro ... When readers left Phillis Wheatley in Afua Cooper s first book, the American Revolution was in full swing, giving Phillis hope that African slaves would gain liberty and equality. (Suite101.com)
Rich Lowry: In black scholar's arrest, who actually was the 'stupid' party? Jul 25, 2009
Crowley, a 42-year-old father of three who coaches basketball and plays on a local softball team, apparently hadn't read "Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the 'Racial' Self," "The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers," or any other books by Gates. Nor had he seen "From Great Zimbabwe to Kilimatinde," or his other PBS documentaries. (Sacramento Bee -- Opinion)
Following Boston's other historic trail Apr 20, 2009
Had it started a little earlier, I feel sure it would have trumpeted the work of Phillis Wheatley, the first published African-American poet. Wheatley became a member of the Old South Meeting House in 1717 (site eight), and her owner, John Wheatley, is buried in the Granary Burying Ground (site four). (Boston Globe)
