Ida B. Wells & Althea Gibson Will Be On New Quarters In 2025

Essence Magazine:

By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated October 19, 2023

Fifty cent is getting blacker than ever, and we’re not talking about the rapper. The United States Mint (Mint) just announced their 2025 American Women Quarters Program honorees, which include two iconic Black women: Ida B. Wells and Althea Gibson.

This is the fourth and culminating year of this Program, which began in 2022, and in total it has honored 20 women who

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