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Fountain was awarded a 2021-22 Fulbright Scholarship to Ghana, where he taught at the University of Ghana, Accra. He also conducted research, titled, "Africa Calling: Portraits of African Americans Drawn to The Motherland"

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For 13 years, Fountain wrote an award-winning, critically-acclaimed column for the Chicago Sun-Times. Fountain was winner in 2016 of the Peter Lisagor Award for best news column or commentary at a daily newspaper with a circulation of more than 250,000 for a series of columns he wrote on violence and murder in the city of Chicago.

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Award-winning columnist, author and journalist, Fountain writes a weekly column for the Chicago Sun-Times. He is a professor at Roosevelt University.

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