Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.
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Meet the 'Geniuses'
All this week, meet one of the local 2020 MacArthur geniuses. Today: Brooklyn's Cécile McLorin Salvant, 2020 MacArthur Fellow, singer, composer and visual artist, whose received the honor for "using manifold powers of interpretation to infuse jazz standards and original compositions with a vibrant, global, Black, feminist sensibility."