Do you have this quarter?

The government has started minting it. As you can see, the coin features poet Maya Angelou - the first black woman ever featured on the US quarter. Angelou was the first black woman to write and perform a poem at a presidential inauguration.

This coin is the first of the American Women Quarters program. Others scheduled are Sally Ride, the first female US astronaut; Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation and a campaigner for indigenous rights; and Anna May Wong, who is considered the first Chinese-American film star in Hollywood.