“We’ve had several shootings just right here in the east end,” William Wells Brown Community Center Director Jill Chenault Wilson said. “We’ve had some of the teen violence that occurred ...

Shortly after their costume fair at William Wells Brown Community Center, co-founder Kathy Phillips said boxes and boxes of costumes were stolen. “We load them up in our car, we take them to the ...

Yet William Wells Brown, whose life, career and activism remain largely understudied, is a similarly significant figure in our literary and cultural history. His importance is made clear in ...