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The Brooklyn Museum is hosting an artist talk on Jan. 7 featuring Cuban-born María Magdalena Campos-Pons, who will share insights into her multidisciplinary practice and the making of her four-decade survey “Behold.”

Here we share the MacArthur Foundation’s information on fellow María Magdalena Campos-Pons. See more at MacArthur Fellows Program. María Magdalena Campos-Pons Multidisciplinary Artist | Class of 2023 Exploring personal and collective histories across the Caribbean with a distinctive and expansive visual style. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSMhJljrQE&t=54s Title: Multidisciplinary Artist Affiliation: Department of Art, Vanderbilt University Location: Nashville, Tennessee Age:&hel...

The 20 winners of this year’s MacArthur Fellowships - often called the “genius grant” - have been announced. Each award carries a $800,000 stipend, paid over five years.

New Jersey has 177,890 newly naturalized U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote in the 2022 general election that could play a critical role in

As a new voting rights debate emerges across the nation, NJ may finally heal wounds from a 1981 election in which voter suppression was alleged.

When supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol last week, many Americans responded with shock, saying that this kind of unrest doesn’t happen here. But for many Black and brown Americans, the notion that political violence is foreign to America is simply wrong. From attacks on protests to voter suppression to discriminatory policing, they see political violence as a common feature of U.S. history.   “Americans say one thing about democracy,” said Nathaniel Briggs, 73...

Far-right media stoke political division | Letters Updated Jan 13, 2021; Facebook Share I’d like to add that media outlets like FOX News have stoked such division for 20-plus years. FOX News, as well as the many ultra-conservative talk-radio stations around the country, have supported the Republican Party by demonizing Democrats and de-legitimizing their party. Democratic Party. FOX News has been so successful that we now have the even more right-wing Newsmax and One America News Network. Th...