Black Professor Awarded the ‘Genius Grant’ with $800K Stipend For His Literary Work

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Black Professor Awarded the ‘Genius Grant’ with $800K Stipend For His Literary Work

Nationwide -- Kiese Laymon, an award-winning author and English professor at Rice University in Houston, Texas, has been awarded the MacArthur Fellowship, the prestigious honor commonly known as the "genius grant." The award comes with an $800,000 stipend that he plans to use "to work on artful connections between middle school students in Houston and

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