Despite House Minority Speaker Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) turning his “magic minute” into remarks lasting more than seven hours on Thursday, Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is expected to pass through the ...

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.

A new exhibit developed by the Museum of African American History I Boston & Nantucket (MAAH), Black Voices of the Revolution: Liberty, Emancipation, and the Struggle for Independence will explore the ...

The Phillis Wheatley Community Library, 33 Dr. Samuel McCree Way, is open to the public today. For a list of Rochester Public Library branches, visit To find a list of City spray parks and features, ...

Fifth Third Bank is steering $5 million from the New Markets Tax Credit Program to the YWCA of Greater Atlanta.

Student speakers delivered a series of eloquent, emotional speeches and received heartfelt congratulations from their faculty ...

There was a problem with the Massachusetts Constitution, and Mumbet saw it right away. Written by John Adams and ratified in 1780, the document — long seen as a model for the U.S. Constitution — ...

F or 21 years, I was undocumented. While I am an American citizen now, this fact still remains the boldest and most dangerous thing I can say out loud.

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.

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 ...

Famous poets have come out of Massachusetts since the 1700s. They include Phillis Wheatley, who is considered to be one of the first Black and enslaved people to publish a book of poems.

The author of a new biography of Phillis Wheatley, one of the country's first major poets, has received a $50,000 history award. David Waldstreicher's “The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's ...