Academy Award-winner Jane Fonda likely will pay the state a visit this fall. The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center just named her as the latest recipient of the Spirit of Katharine Hepburn Award.

The first-ever authorized adaptation of the groundbreaking 1956 novel is making its debut not in New York or Paris, but in Mt. Airy's Sedgwick Theater.

what like her second mother. In her thoughts, however, we see Phillis refer to Susanna as “the white lady” rather than mother or mistress. Many of the poems are written from either Wheatley’s or ...

Prominent writers like Olaudah Equiano and Phillis Wheatley are among the historical figures given contemporary portrayals. Joy Labinjo, An Eighteenth-Century Family (2022).

In 1737, Jonathan Edwards published A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God, one of the earliest written evangelical accounts describing the Great Awakening. In it, Edwards mentions ...

"I am among those writers who are conjuring an important and, I think, mighty tradition among Black writers —the writing of self," says Jones, whose The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir ...

Following the contributions of Phillis Wheatley, Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877-1966) became one of the most well-known Black female writers and playwrights of her time.

Through that work, I learned the myriad inspirational ways our adult students were using literature to build bridges and make change in their immediate lives. I began to wonder if this poetry of ...

Phillis Wheatley. Public Domain Ancient Greece as inspiration Wheatley was not alone in her admiration of Ancient Greece. Indeed, many Americans and African-Americans, as mentioned above, looked to it ...

In 1773, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" by Phillis Wheatley was published in London. Not Boston where she lived, as the local authorities still needed convincing to accept that an ...

The "Wheatley at 250" book refers to her as Phillis Wheatley Peters because "we see her as a mature woman, a married woman." Meanwhile, "Poems on Various Subjects" is "just a marvel.

The "Wheatley at 250" book refers to her as Phillis Wheatley Peters because "we see her as a mature woman, a married woman." Meanwhile, "Poems on Various Subjects" is "just a marvel.