#blackwomen #blackhistory #blackpoets #blacksky #addtoblacksky
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This is a great addition to the many beautiful statues in Boston. I’m still scratching my head over the MLK statue on the Common.
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So Boston will create a new statue as the homeless attempt to relocate their tents in anticipation of the coming winter.
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Don't tell us. It's going to be taken down?
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Beautiful, but get serious: many women published books before her.
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I hope she’s safe from the Trump anti-DEI police.
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It's beautiful, I've walked past it many times
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Beautiful! I did not know this—will check it out.
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An exceptionally elegant tribute to the US first published black poet.
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Ayo chill out Ms. Phyllis 🤣😅
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That picture is of Sarah Forbes Bonetta.
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What a pretty sculpture.
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I learned about her in school decades ago as part of New England history. I'm starting to think this was unusual, because other folks apparently did not. But Boston history was quite proud of her.
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Over 4000 years ago, Enheduanna, a Summerian lady, was the first known female writer to sign her work. I'm sure that in Africa, there were also ladies writing whatever their interests were. And maybe in the rest of the American Continent, there were black writers, because whitin the Hispanic Empire
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First to publish in the USA might be a better tag
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first woman to publish a book ? america, are you trippin on some stupid shit again ?
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Lovely statue. But she died in 1784. That can't be a photo of her.
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✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼
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Exquisite ❤️
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The PBS cartoon Liberty's Kids introduced me to her. I did not know her story until I watched that show
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Shhh! Don't tell anyone! Trump will have it removed and replaced with a Confederate soldier.
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She died in 1784. There are NO photos available of Phillis Wheatley.
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Love the sculpture.
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Amazing woman indeed!!!
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#BlackHistoryIsAmericanHistory and any attempt to whitewash it won't change that.
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So what.
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One more reason to visit Bos!
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Awesome tribute to a person who deserves to be honored as the trail blazer she was. We need far more trail blazers to show us the way.
Thanks for sharing such a wonderful post.
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When will this be removed for 'endangering children and spouring civil unrest'?
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On my list of places to visit
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That’s very good.
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Don't let Trump and his administration find out about this
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Definitely thought that was a statue of 411 Mary
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She will be erased from history by racist trump administration directed by Stephen Miller's hate of non-whites & followers of Nazi ideals
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Beautiful. Proud to be a Bostonian
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First woman to publish a book, what? 😭
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I read a fascinating editorial about her by John Louis Gates Jr. According to the white 'gentlemen' who sponsored her, literacy proved intelligence. They did not acknowledge that she would have been just as intelligent had she never learned to read and write. Moral: ALWAYS check your ideology.
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Oh wow, I thought the pics of the statue were a very good monochrome fashion shoot!
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When is trump having it removed?😡
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Beautiful.
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Better than this damn statue V
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What an elegant statue! Thank you for sharing.
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First woman to publish a book??!!
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Enheduanna would like a word.
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So beautiful.
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Stunningly beautiful!
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What did they do to her nose? They changed it to make it look whiter! Another form of racism.
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Nicely corseted with neat figure
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Shame it's likely to be removed as soon as MAGA sees this.
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"First woman to publish a book?" NOPE. Meet Julian of Norwich (1342-c.1416, author of The Revelations of Divine Love, "which is widely acknowledged as one of the great classics of the spiritual life. She is thought to have been the first woman to write a book in English which has survived."
Who is Julian of Norwich
About Julian of Norwich Julian of Norwich (1342-c.1416) is known to us almost only through her book, The Revelations of Divine Love, which is widely acknowledged as one of the great classics of the sp...
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Great post 📫
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#365BlackTruth24SevenPhyllisWheatley
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MAGA will soon be removing her from the new American recognized history. UNLESS Americans wake up and take back their country. Only you can save yourselves now.
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Beautiful.
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I read some of her writing in a Women's literature class. Beautiful. I'm grateful she was supported and her writing has endured.
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Don’t tell trump or he will remove it . If you’re black and successful trump will take you down . Yeah this is the same guy that used to mark apartment applications if they were black so they didn’t rent to black folks
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That wording makes it seem like she's claiming to be the first ever female author to be published when she's more likely the first black woman in the US to be..
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Don't let Trump see that. He'll have it removed.
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It's a beautiful statue, everyone should see it.
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The first woman to publish a book?
Really? Can I get a dollar for every woman that published before her?
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Cool
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First woman to publish a book, really?
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Beautiful!
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Never saw this before. Love it though!
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I love this!!! We need more black women to be lauded and remembered in public spaces. Fill the plinths of confederate traitors with the abolitionists and inventors the strong women the brave women. Every black women that raised this country up should be on a pedestal
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The picture isn't the same person www.npg.org.uk/collections/...
Aina (Sarah Forbes Bonetta (later Davies)) - National Portrait Gallery
by Camille Silvy albumen print 15 September 1862 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Black people made this country they built this country they are just as much apart of America as white people if not more I respect what these people have gone through and still going through yet can be cheerful accommodating and faithful they know how to run their family whites do not
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The statue is very touching, thank you for sharing
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spreading fake news like other blacks
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First known to publish a book - Murasaki Shikibu for The Tale of Genji, written in Japan in the early 11th century.
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It's so beautiful🌷
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In the English-speaking world, Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love (c. 1393) is the first book known to have a female author, though first published much later in 1670. For the first woman to publish under her own name, Katherine Parr did so in 1545.
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AWESOME!!!!!
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Shh don’t draw attention to
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Beautiful tribute. 💜
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I can imagine trump let’s it get removed soon
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tRump will try to get that one removed because it's not white enough.
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What was the book?
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Imagine a little girl seeing this and realizing that the poetry she's writing may someday be worthy of a statue. That people know her name a century later because a community embraced her work and honored her memory this way. This is the history and heritage we should be celebrating.
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I did not know there was a statue of Phyllis Wheatley in Boston! Beautiful statue!
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Wonderful woman, wonderful statue ❤️
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What a beautiful statue x
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I know that's tedious, but "in US" should have been in both qualifiers.
Not to dismiss the person, of course, but sometimes americans really seem to not be aware of the uniqueness of the worst of their history...
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BRAVO PHYLLIS WHEATLEY!
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She was a slave and the first woman to publish a book in America.
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She’s beautiful as well as astonishing
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Amazing. Let’s see how quickly #RacistTrump declares it “woke” & bans it.
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Beautiful.
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Fox News declaring the statue too woke in... 3... 2... 1...
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Another black woman poet is following in her footsteps and inspiring us. Thank you Amanda Gorman.
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What a great statue!
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I did not know this bit of history! And now I know of Phyllis Wheatley! #blackwomen #blackhistory #blackpoets #blacksky #addtoblacksky
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She was so beautiful!
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I found her husband's will once in the Massachusetts director, he billed himself as a doctor and left what seemed like grocery merchandise in his estate.
Phyllis died young .
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Not widely known; she lived in Providence, RI during the occupation of Boston in the Rev War, she was friends with a woman named Oba or Obba Tanner there. (African name Oba, Obba.)
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Love this.
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That is absolutely gorgeous!
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#FuckBoston
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Αfrιсα ιѕ bιg, ωнεrε'ѕ sнε frοм? Нοω αnd ωну ωαѕ ѕнε ρυblιѕнεd ιn τнε UЅ? Ιf τнεrε'ѕ α ρнοτο οf нεr, ѕнε сαn'τ bε τнε fιrѕτ ωοмαn το bε ρυblιѕнεd ѕιnсε ωοмεn нανε bεεn ρυblιѕнεd bεfοrε τнε ιnνεnτιοn οf τнε сαmεrα.
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Amazing statue of her.
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From the "Friends of the Public Garden"
"Phillis Wheatley was the first Black person, the first enslaved person, and the third woman in the United States to publish a book of poems. She was born in Senegal in 1753, kidnapped at eight years old,"
friendsofthepublicgarden.org/2023/03/01/w...
#WomensHistory: Phillis Wheatley | March 1, 2023 - Friends of the Public Garden
The statue of Phillis Wheatley is one of three women subjects of the Boston Women’s Memorial on Commonwealth Avenue Mall between Fairfield Street and Gloucester Street. As described in the dedication ...
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First woman ever? Anywhere in the world?
You know, all those other countries...............
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This is our history, respect and remember.
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That's a beautiful statue.
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I wonder how many police have stopped demand her ID or claim she matched the description of a suspect before realizing she was a statue.
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Every day on this platform, I see something that is new and important. Thank you for sharing this.
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I'm autistic so I mute threads once I get eight likes
So normally I miss most of the comments on a post. I only saw these by accident
My number is on my bio if you want to talk politely
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OUR ANCESTORS ARE AWESOME AND THEY ABIDE WITH US IN THIS DAY TO STRENGTHEN AND PUSH US FORWARD! GOD BLESS THE SPIRIT OF OUR ANCESTORS!
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Beautiful sculpture that honors Ms. Wheatley as a poet/thinker. Eyes reflecting a woman lost in thought- what word should I use? Meredith Bergman is the sculptor.
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My search results indicate a different person is the first woman to "publish a book"
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First woman in USA? Wasn't the first in the world quite surely.
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I remember when I taught her poetry in my US lit classes. Students were shocked and amazed
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Damn. Very cool. Not enough of this kind of thing. Too much history hidden. Best wishes.
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👏👏👏👏❤️
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She was a very impressive woman.
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How beautiful ❤️
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Vaguely resembles her. Doesn't do her justice.
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In the USA
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Absolutely beautiful
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The first woman to publish a book in English was Julian of Norwich in 1373
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Thanks for sharing this 💞
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Wonderful!
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Now that's a proper monument.
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A part of American history Trump and his fascist regime would like to bury so far no one in America's future gets to even know of it...
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Beautiful!!!
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Stunning statue.
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My third graders read about Phyllis 40 years ago in their reading book. I learned about her right along with them. So I guess "all this woke stuff" is not new after all is it.
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There is no black history outside of a couple of African states, but thta is the thing of a long gone past. And it has definitely no connection to any black inn America.
https://black.in
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Nice
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Overtly Christian woman - Some leftist white, female, radical feminist is currently struggling with the moral quandary of whether to deface/vandalize it or not.
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This is a lie that is on Facebook where the OP turned off comments correcting her lie to her page. It’s probably where you got this.
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That photograph IS NOT Phyllis Wheatley. That photograph is of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, Queen Victorias god-daughter.
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Beautiful.
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I've seen so many bad sculptures of famous people in the past few years, but finally I see this one from a professional who knows his/her business.
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Beautiful sculpture!
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please view it now before it’s white washed
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woah shes pretty. congrats to her for those accomplishments
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First woman allowed to publish a book...
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That’s a really beautiful sculpture. Just stunning. I’m sure her descents are thrilled with it!
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She was probably a Republican since the Democrats founded the KKK.
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Super pic
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Make sure they don't tear it down... Protect #blackhistory and her memory! #PhyllisWheatley
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Now, there is something I'd actually like to be in Boston for. To pay my respects.
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Don’t draw attention to it. Trump will have it removed!
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This is absolutely beautiful!
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so wonderful, thanks for posting this!
My wife and I used to perform on the Spoken Word scene.
we knew Cornelius Eady a bit...
Cave Canem
(Cave Canem is a nonprofit organization, committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of Black poets.)
#blackpoets
Cave Canem
Cave Canem is a nonprofit organization, committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of Black poets.
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What a beautiful sculpture
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Beautiful
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What a beautiful bronze statue.
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I went to college at UMass-Boston. I became familiar with Phyllis Wheatley because there is a building named after her. I attended most of my economics courses in Wheatley Hall.
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First woman (to publish) in the US I assume…
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The question remains: When will Republicans begin to demand said acknowledgment be taken down & replace it with a statue of Thomas F. Dixon Jr.?
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So cool. What year was that?
Female writers have been around forever but they all used to use "male" names as authors. Women weren't accepted as authors worthy of publication.
It'll be like that again in a couple of years if you don't get rid of trump's dictatorship.
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Hail the Bronze Lady.
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When I was in 1st grade, I did a book report on Phyllis Wheatley for Black History Month. I always thought it was interesting that at no time during my public school education was she mentioned.
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Take a good look - if the racists in DC have their way, she won’t be there much longer 😢😡
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More #Monuments like this !!!
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Learned about her work many moons ago in a Women's Literature class at Kent State University. Toni Morrison and others, too. Old school education!
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Don’t let you know who see it
