Maya Angelou

The US Treasury has minted coins featuring poet Maya Angelou - the first black woman ever featured on the US 25-cent coin known as a quarter. Angelou, a poet and...

The first coins in the American Women Quarters Program have entered circulation, making the late poet and activist Maya Angelou the first Black woman to appear on the U.S. quarter....

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The United States Mint said Monday it has begun shipping quarters featuring the image of poet Maya Angelou the first coins in its American Women Quarters Program. Angelou, an American...

The U.S. Mint has started rolling out quarters which feature late American author and activist Maya Angelou, the first Black woman to appear on the coin. The coin is part...

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Poet and activist Maya Angelou, who died in 2014, has become the first Black woman to be featured on a United States quarter coin. The 25-cent coin, which shows Angelou...

Maya Angelou's likeness will appear on the quarter. (Photo by Gary Miller/FilmMagic) FilmMagic Maya Angelou has become the first Black woman to have her likeness depicted on the quarter. The U.S....

bell hooks, the feminist author, poet, theorist and cultural critic, has died at the age of 69 at her home in Berea, Kentucky. Her works, including Aint I a Woman:...