STORIES OF INSPIRATION

  • The Community-University Health Care Center offers a legal lifeline to improve our neighbors’ health when medical care alone isn’t enough
  • From well-checks to emergencies, follow a day in the life of two medical students participating in the University’s Rural Physician Associate Program
  • From cancer survivor to theater standout, senior Madelyn Tax is using her time at the University of Minnesota to build community and give back

I choke up just about every time I talk about it. she was an enslaved person when she published it, and she did it before the age of 20.

Davu Seru, curator of the Givens Collection of African American Literature and Life at the University of Minnesota Libraries, which includes the first book published by an African American in the United States, Phillis Wheatley's 1773 collection, "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral"

Make a gift to support the Givens Collection

Give Now

Poems and other subjects by Phyllis Wheatly