BOSTON (AURN News) — According to USPS, the U.S. Postal Service will honor Phillis Wheatley, the first published African American poet, with the 49th stamp in its Black Heritage series.
The stamp commemorates Wheatley’s groundbreaking literary legacy as the first author of African descent in the American Colonies to publish a book.
A free, public first-day-of-issue ceremony will take place Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, at 11 a.m. EST at the Old South Meeting House in Boston…