If you’re running low on your quarter stash, now might be the coolest time to head to the bank to stock up. As announced by the U.S. Mint last fall, five pioneering American women will appear on the ...

Barefoot and draped in the colorful embroidery of traditional Maya huipil garb, 20-year-old Sitlali Yovana Poot Dzib steps up to the plate, wiggling her bat overhead as she faces the pitch. The field ...

The coin honoring the late poet and civil rights activist went into circulation Monday and pays tribute to her 1970 autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou is making history once ...

Artist Emily Damstra is behind the depiction of Angelou, as well as a forthcoming quarter featuring actress Anna May Wong. The Maya Angelou American Woman Quarter, designed by Emily Damstra and ...

Many anthropologists have studied the culture of the Maya, Mexico’s indigenous people. Crystal Sheedy ’08 is one of the first women to do it in the ancient Maya language. In doing so, she found that ...

ALBANY, N.Y (NEWS10) — A group of women in Guatemala has been passing down the tradition of weaving for more than two thousand years. It’s a tradition that Mayan Hands, a nonprofit in Albany, is on a ...

A woman from Washington, D.C.,was in for quite the surprise after she purchased a vase from a thrift shop for $3.99, which turned out to be a Mayan artifact. Mom of three and cultural worker Anna Lee ...

In her book Talking Back, Feminist Thinking, Black Thinking, bell hooks talks about how often ‘feminist women (many of whom are white) say they want to hear women who until now haven’t had a voice, ...

The US Mint has begun rolling out quarters featuring iconic African American poet and activist Dr. Maya Angelou, marking the first time a black woman has appeared on the coin. “Each time we redesign ...

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Maya Angelou and Anna May Wong are among the women featured on quarters in 2022. Americans will soon be seeing the face of the late Maya Angelou on U.S. quarters. On Monday, the United States Mint ...