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Jet;  July 5, 1993 ;     515 words ... ... essayist $296,000; Ernest J. Gaines, writer and professor at the University of Southwest Louisiana, $365,000; Sokoni Karanja, founder of the Centers for New Horizons in Chicago, $320,000; Dr. Aaron Shirley, physician and medical director ...

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AScribe Health News Service;  September 19, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist who has been named a 2006 recipient of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "genius grant," has invented an online, multiple-player game that could help make the Internet more accessible to the visually ...

Article: Four Blacks Win MacArthur Foundation Genius Awards
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Article: Three Blacks Win MacArthur Foundation Genius Awards
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Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The;  October 31, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The 10-31-2005 The winners of MacArthur Foundation genius awards go to scholars and artists -- generally not well known to the American public -- who have accomplished much in their chosen ...

Article: 23 WIN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION GENIUS GRANTS.(MAIN)
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Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The;  October 31, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, The 10-31-2004 Edward P. Jones has had an extraordinary year. His first novel, The Known World, published in 2003, tells the story of a free black man who owned slaves in antebellum Virginia. This work won for Jones the National Book Critics Circle Award and