Celebrating African American History and Culture Forever Stamps

The stamp marks the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington in September 2016. The idea took just over a century to become a building: African American Union Army veterans first pressed for a memorial in 1915, after being met with discrimination at their own reunion in the capital, and the campaign passed through several generations before Congress authorized the museum in 2003.

It suits mail where that history is the subject - museum and cultural institution correspondence, university department mail, church and community organization newsletters, fundraising letters, and Black History Month mailings in February. It also works simply as a well-made stamp for everyday post. Sheets of 20. The building itself is worth knowing about too - David Adjaye led the design, and its three-tiered bronze corona is modelled on a Yoruban column. Forever value applies, so a sheet keeps its full worth against the one-ounce letter rate however long it sits.