Black Genius, Recognized: Meet the 2019 Class of Black MacArthur Fellows
Saidiyah Hartman was sitting in a bar in Durban, South Africa when she got the news: she had just been awarded a $625,000 MacArthur Fellowship. Accompanied by one of her best friends, Hartman-a literary scholar and cultural historian-was in town to help plan a meeting for a black studies mobile academy.