• By Dodai
    Jul 16, 2008 2:40 PM 586
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    G Is For Grace — What's That Up Her Sleeve?
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    The U.S. Postal service will issue a series of stamps "highlighting the African-American cultural experience." Entertainment icons like Duke Ellington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Louis Jordan, Daniel L. Haynes will be featured. And it's not just men: Fredi Washington, Victoria Spivey and personal favorite Josephine Baker (pictured), will be on the stamps, which us vintage publicity posters as their inspiration.You can see the stamps here: They're on sale nationwide starting today. [UPI, USPS]


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