The MacArthur Foundation “genius grants” recently announced three Black authors are among the winners for 2020. Woodson of Columbus, OH is known for works like ‘Miracle’s Boys’ and her award-winning ...

A former University of Chicago sociology professor who examines how gang-associated youth in Chicago use social media. A legal scholar who studies how Black and other disadvantaged families are ...

Harvard Economics professor Isaiah S. Andrews was one of 21 recipients of a 2020 MacArthur Fellowship, the MacArthur Foundation announced on Tuesday. Andrews, who joined the Harvard faculty in 2018, ...

Artist Ralph Lemon, playwright Larissa FastHorse, and poet and cultural theorist Fred Moten are among the newly announced class of 2020 MacArthur fellows. The annual award bestowed by the John D. and ...

A sanitation crisis in rural America helped spark a journey that started with a push for basic sanitation infrastructure and morphed into an ongoing fight for racial environmental justice that touches ...

Every year, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awards $625,000 fellowships to “extraordinarily talented and creative individuals” to spend on whatever they wish. Sometimes known as ...

MacArthur High School graduates showed off their beautifully decorated caps. (Photo courtesy of the Levittown Public Schools) General Douglas MacArthur High School’s Class of 2020 officially marked ...

Each MacArthur Fellow receives a $625,000 stipend, with no strings attached as to how it is spent. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced the 21 winners of this year’s ...

CHICAGO — The MacArthur Foundation on Tuesday announced the 21 creative pioneers who have been named as this year's "genius" fellows. The 2020 cohort includes scientists, artists, writers and more, ...

When Natalia Molina was growing up in Echo Park in the 1970s, she’d spend evenings at the Mexican restaurant her mother owned, Nayarit, a neighborhood staple her grandmother founded in 1951 that was ...

Santa Monica playwright Larissa FastHorse ignored several calls from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the organization that doles out $625,000 “genius” grants to creatives. She ...