VHarris Writes

Settling into her summer sojourn, Laura began plotting her version of the grand tour. “From Paris I intended to go to Geneva and then to...

Although Laura was now in Paris independent of her Academy classmates, she was not alone for long. Visiting Paris at the time were two...

“Miss Laura Wheeler, a colored girl of Hartford, Conn., has been awarded a European Traveling Scholarship by the Pennsylvania Academy of...

"I remember being taken to the art galleries in Hartford many times...I cannot remember a time I did not have a great thrill with my...

"Yours truly, for truth and right." A.N. FREEMAN If you’ve studied the history of free blacks in the 19th century north, you may have...

Part 2. An Elite Upbringing... Born into the black social elite Waring spent most of her adult life relatively secure, employed as an...

Part 1. I was looking for my next project and she chose me.... I had just finished “A Highway Runs Through It…” a film that documents the...