STORIES OF INSPIRATION

  • An expansion at the Nutritious U Food Pantry is filling a grocery gap for students who are experiencing food insecurity — no proof of need required
  • Whether she’s helping to draft climate bills in Minnesota or conducting ecology fieldwork in Ireland, Martha Wondimu is turning a lifelong love of nature into a career path
  • The Community-University Health Care Center offers a legal lifeline to improve our neighbors’ health when medical care alone isn’t enough

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"

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Poems and other subjects by Phyllis Wheatly