Out today: The Maya Angelou coin, the first US quarter to EVER feature a Black woman Women—especially women of color—who shaped American history have gone unrecognized for too long.

The first quarter celebrated writer, performer and social activist Maya Angelou. Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, Mexican American journalist Jovita Idar and Bessie Coleman, the first African ...

The poet Maya Angelou remains beloved more than a decade after her death. Yet few lift up the power of her voice in the ...

Even before the 9-foot-tall bronze monument to author Maya Angelou was lifted ... on United States currency when a quarter ...

Maya Angelou achieved enough during her extraordinary life to fill seven autobiographies. Her unique career – which included work as a dancer, singer, actress, composer, activist, teacher ...