Welcome to Tell it Proud, stories of courage too good to erase or ignore. I'm your host Christina Blacken. I'm a public speaker, performer, writer, and founder of The New Quo which helps every day people practice authentic leadership through daily acts of courage that improves trust and wellbeing in how we live and work together.

Today's episode is an essay I wrote for The New Quo Learning Community about Phillis Wheatley who was an American writer who was the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. She was captured and enslaved at a young age, overcoming significant oppression to express her voice and create a poetry legacy.

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