macarthur fellows
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Relax, Relate and Read: The Best Books to Give (and Get) This Holiday Season
As last-minute gifts go, there are few more thoughtful or budget-friendly than a book—and we’ve got the best reads of the year for everyone on your list.
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Take That, History-Deniers: The 1619 Project Has Already Achieved Bestseller Status Ahead of Publication
Amid an ongoing and irrational fight over Critical Race Theory, the groundbreaking anthology created by Nikole Hannah-Jones is already proving a pivotal work.
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Ibram X. Kendi, Jordan Casteel and Daniel Lind-Ramos Are Among Winners of 2021 MacArthur ‘Genius’ Grant
Over a third of the 25 geniuses are Black; 2021 fellows also include Hanif Abdurraqib, Reginald Dwayne Betts and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones Rejects UNC-Chapel Hill Position for Job at Howard U Along With Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hannah-Jones has found herself a home that truly embodies Blackness in education. She’s where she needs to be and the HBCU world is better for it.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones Tells UNC-Chapel Hill She Won't Join Faculty Unless She Has Tenure
The journalist and creator of the 1619 Project has had enough of the BS.
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Top UNC-Chapel Hill Candidate Turns Down Job Because the University Chose White Supremacy Over Nikole Hannah-Jones
It looks like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is finding out the hard way that bending to white fragility can come at a cost. Ever since Nikole Hannah-Jones was denied a tenured position at her alma mater because conservatives across America went to war against her Pulitzer Prize-winning work The 1619 Project—including…