Meet the 'Geniuses'

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 28, 2020

We wrap up our series with the local 2020 MacArthur geniuses. Today: New York's Fred Moten, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, cultural theorist, poet and professor in the department of performance studies at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, who received the honor for "creating new conceptual spaces to accommodate emerging forms of Black aesthetics, cultural production, and social life."

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