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WASHINGTON — Jazz musician Duke Ellington has become the first black American to be prominently featured on a U.S. coin in circulation with the release of a quarter honoring the District of Columbia. U.S. Mint and D.C. officials celebrated the release of the coin Tuesday during a ceremony at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
Ellington grew up in Washington. He beat out designs featuring abolitionist Frederick Douglass and astronomer Benjamin Banneker. The Associated Press
