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An acid attack when he was just 4 years old disfigured and blinded Joshua A. Miele for life.

WBUR spoke with several recipients of this year's MacArthur 'Genius Grants' over the past few years. Here are some of those interviews.

A bounty of clarity in the poetry of Rita Dove.

A lawyer and poet once imprisoned for a carjacking committed at age 16 is among 25 people who won the MacArthur Foundation fellowships, commonly known as

A formerly incarcerated poet and lawyer at Yale Law School has won the prestigious MacArthur Foundation Fellowship — commonly known as the Genius Grant.

Writers, artists, poets, a virologist, activists and filmmakers are among the luminaries named as this year’s MacArthur fellows. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Tuesday announced 25

a href= https://www.artsy.net/ target= _blank Artsy /a announced today the launch of “Julie Mehretu for Art for Justice Fund: Benefit Auction

The auction is estimated to raise $3m to $4m to support efforts to end mass incarceration

Virtual Join Aperture and The Marshall Project for a conversation between artist Nigel Poor and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts, celebrating the launch of the book The San Quentin Project (Aperture, 2021). In 2011, Poor began teaching a history of photography class through the Prison University Project (now called Mount Tamalpais College) at San Quentin State Prison, California. Soon, Poor began incorporating images from thousands of negatives from the prison’s vast archive into her visual studies...

Yale Teach-In Series Reflects on the Path Forward After the Chauvin Verdict In the Press Yale Teach-In Series Reflects on the Path Forward After the Chauvin Verdict A series of three teach-ins involving Law School faculty, staff, alumni, and affiliates examined the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted in the murder of George Floyd. The series presented an opportunity for the Yale community to reflect and come together in the wake of the verdict. The teach-...