Barbara Ortiz Howard

Rosa Parks is a candidate for the first woman on the $20 bill

Fighting to put a woman on the $20 bill

Culture

It’s time, one group says, to end the monopoly of men on US paper currency. President Barack Obama thinks it’s about time, too.

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