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US Mint and Treasury announce a black woman with braids will be Lady Liberty on new currency
- Lady Liberty is a black woman.
- The U.S. Mint and Treasury is celebrating its 225th anniversary and unveiled on a new $100 coin on Thursday.
- It’s the first time in United States history that Lady Liberty has not been portrayed as a white woman.
- The new coin is set to be unveiled in April and is the first in a series of new, racially diverse commemorative coins to be released by the U.S. Treasury.
- Future designs will represent Lady Liberty as Hispanic-American, Asian-American, and Indian-American “to reflect the cultural and ethnic diversity of the United States,” the Mint wrote. Read more
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Today we should not only honor and recognize the tragedy of April 15th one year ago, but we should celebrate and be proud of the unity of this city and the good it has displayed through such a hard time - I don’t think there is any better way to define the camaraderie of Boston than through this video.
