On February 22, 1911, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper — author, poet, abolitionist and suffragist — died at 85. As the “mother of African American journalism,” Harper has inspired generations of Black ...
Mural Arts, artists and other stakeholders cut the ribbon on the We Are All Bound Up Together mural event at the Greene Street Friends School on October 30, 2025. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) From Philly ...
Mural Arts Philadelphia debuted a new public art piece at Greene Street Friends School in Germantown on Thursday that celebrates Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, an acclaimed poet and abolitionist. The ...
From a corner house in West Philadelphia, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s great-niece Queen Mother Falaka Fattah has brokered peace among warring gangs, offered at-risk youth a safe haven and won ...
HBO’s hit series The Gilded Age blends fictional characters with historic figures, so audiences may not realize that Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, who spoke in (fictional) Peggy Scott’s home during ...
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