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PHILLIS WHEATLEY PETERS ~  A Voice Enslavement Could Not Silence.  Born around 1753 in West Africa—most likely in the Senegambia region—Phillis Wheatley Peters was kidnapped as a young child and forced across the Atlantic aboard the slave ship Phillis . She arrived in Boston in 1761, approximately seven or eight years old, and was purchased by John and Susanna Wheatley. She was given the name Phillis after the ship that carried her and the surname Wheatley after the family that enslaved her. Although English was not her first language, Phillis quickly learned to read and write. She studied the Bible, English literature, history, Latin and Greek. While still a young teenager, she began writing and publishing poetry that demonstrated extraordinary intelligence, spiritual depth and literary brilliance. Many white colonists refused to believe that an enslaved Black girl could have written such remarkable work. In 1772, Phillis was examined by a group of prominent Boston men, i...

WE MUST DO MORE THAN MOURN:  A five-year-old died after finding an unsecured firearm on Revolutionary Way. Now Fort Worth must decide whether that street will remain the address of another tragedy—or become the starting point of a revolutionary movement against youth gun violence. New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church is bringing together two powerful responses: the VIDAS Robadas T-shirt exhibition and Guns to Gardens . By Pastor Kyev P. Tatum, Sr. Senior Pastor, New Mount Rose Missionary Baptist Church President, Ministers Justice Coalition of Texas Host of the October 1 and October 18, 2026, events At approximately 7:45 on a Saturday evening, Fort Worth police officers and firefighters were called to an apartment complex in the 2100 block of Revolutionary Way. The name of the street now carries a painful significance. Inside the unfolding emergency was a child only five years old. Her name was Nhilynn Serenity Raell Robinson . According to the preliminary investigation, Nh...