Press Release - 'Your little heart ... could not endure.' Born with a serious heart condition, seven-year-old Rahaf suffered cardiac arrest after being rescued from a boat in distress.

South African poetry, rich with history , has long been an underappreciated cornerstone of the country's cultural landscape.

Phillis Wheatley came to America on a slave ship, but soon became its first African-American poet with knowledge of Latin ans ...

Although best known as the author of the first poem composed by an African American woman ... Lucy was stolen from Africa as an infant and sold to Ebenezer Wells of Deerfield, Massachusetts.