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We were promised a Black woman on the $20 bill … The writer and poet Maya Angelou has become the first Black woman to have her likeness depicted on the quarter, the first in a series of coins commemorating pioneering American women that began shipping this week, the U.S. Mint announced Monday. … The coin… Read more.
Toni Morrison, the 1993 Nobel laureate in literature, whose work explored black identity in America and in particular the experience of black women, died on Monday in the Bronx. … The first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Ms. Morrison was the author of 11 novels as well as children’s books and… Read more.
Everyone is eulogizing Maya Angelou. And they’re doing so as if she were more a living saint than a poet laureate. Michelle and I join millions around the world in remembering one of the brightest lights of our time — a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman. (President Obama, whitehouse.gov, May 28, 2014)… Read more.
