This week, legendary poet Maya Angelou became the first Black woman to appear on the 25-cent U.S. coin — a gesture Whoopi Goldberg and her “View” cohosts opined on briefly during Tuesday’s episode of the daytime talk series.
‘I don’t know how much more proof people need,’ Whoopi Goldberg said on ‘The View.’ ‘If you can get vaccinated ... do yourself a favor.’, the U.S. Mint began circulating the Angelou quarter Monday as part of a series of currency intended to pay homage to pioneering American women. The Mint also plans to produce quarters for trailblazing astronaut Sally Ride, Native American activist Wilma Mankiller, New Mexico voting rights leader Nina Otero-Warren and Chinese American screen icon Anna May Wong.
The first coin in the series depicts Angelou spreading her arms in the shadow of a bird — a visual nod to her seminal autobiography, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” Though Goldberg noted that “having Maya anywhere is a magnificent thing” and called the engraving of the writer “beautiful,” she challenged the United States to do more to honor a figure as revered and influential as Angelou.
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