{"id":180,"date":"2015-10-09T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/10\/09\/a-genius-among-us\/"},"modified":"2020-02-20T18:47:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T18:47:04","slug":"a-genius-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/10\/09\/a-genius-among-us\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018Genius\u2019 Among Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- [if !mso]&gt;&lt;![endif]--><br \/>\n<!-- [if gte mso 9]&gt; &lt;![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 9]&gt; Normal 0 false false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE &lt;![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 9]&gt; &lt;![endif]--><!-- [if gte mso 10]&gt;&lt;![endif]--><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Baltimore-born author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates was one of the 2015 recipients of the <a title=\"MacArthur Fellows Program\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MacArthur_Fellows_Program\"><span style=\"color: windowtext;text-decoration: none\">MacArthur Fellows Program<\/span><\/a> \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MacArthur_Fellows_Program\">Genius Grant<\/a>.\u201d This grant selects a handful of recipients each year to receive $625,000 over a five year period with no strings attached. Imagine, over half a million dollars to pursue your creative endeavors!<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Coates is an advocate for social justice and uses personal experience and history to explore issues surrounding culture, poverty, and race. See an interview with Coates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macfound.org\/fellows\/931\/\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And check out his books, available at Langsdale:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/ubalt.worldcat.org\/title\/between-the-world-and-me\/oclc\/912045191&amp;referer=brief_results\"><i>Between the World and Me<\/i><\/a> \u2013 a novel written in the form of a letter to his teenage son about the realities of being black in the United States<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/91gxrS4ygTL._AC_UY218_ML3_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/ubalt.worldcat.org\/title\/beautiful-struggle\/oclc\/190784908&amp;referer=brief_results\"><i>The Beautiful Struggle<\/i><\/a> \u2013 a memoir on Coates&#8217; unique family life and growing up in west Baltimore<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/918fubHv68L._AC_UY218_ML3_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore-born author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates was one of the 2015 recipients of the MacArthur Fellows Program \u201cGenius Grant.\u201d This grant selects a handful of recipients each year to receive $625,000 over a five year period with no strings attached. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2015\/10\/09\/a-genius-among-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  A \u2018Genius\u2019 Among Us<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2851,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}