February is Black History Month in Jamaica and the United States, and African Heritage Month in Canada. October is Black History Month in the United Kingdom. The annual observance was founded in 1926 by the American historian Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson (1875-1950). He also founded the Associatio... Read more...
Phillis Wheatley was enslaved at the age of eight, is widely known as the first African-American woman in United States history to have her poetry published. Constant themes in Wheatley's poems are death, religion, and the struggle of Blacks in the U.S. Wheatley also composed many poems that are a... Read more...