Creative Loafing

 

Jonathan Rapping wasn’t expecting the call. One night early last September, the founder of Gideon’s Promise, an Atlanta-based nonprofit that trains public defenders, answered his phone after one of his classes. The person had a brief message: Rapping would be named a 2014 MacArthur Fellow. He was told to keep it secret until the formal announcement was made two weeks later.

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