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Durham's Black Wall Street
Finding freedom through entrepreneurship
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Lucas Hubbard2022-12-05 15:44:332022-12-05 15:44:37To address wealth gap, WA to consider $4,000 ‘baby bonds’
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Madeleine Braksick2022-12-01 19:23:142022-12-01 19:23:37William Darity on the COVID-19 pandemic, racial inequality, and reparations
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Madeleine Braksick2022-11-28 16:12:402022-11-28 16:12:44COVID and Our Education
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Lucas Hubbard2022-11-03 21:56:002022-11-07 21:58:01Harvard symposium seeks to answer: Can reparations close the racial health gap?
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Lucas Hubbard2022-11-02 22:13:002022-11-07 22:15:17‘A Dream Defaulted’ Authors discuss their book about “the student loan crisis among Black borrowers”
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Lucas Hubbard2022-11-01 22:05:002022-11-07 22:08:19Pandemic led to sharp spike in Black, Asian and Latino homeownership
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Lucas Hubbard2022-10-31 22:00:002022-11-07 22:02:59Office of Equity & Inclusion Presents COVID-19 Prevention Work at Duke University
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Madeleine Braksick2022-10-27 15:29:002022-11-01 15:38:48Day 3 of The Pandemic Divide Conference
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Madeleine Braksick2022-10-26 15:38:002022-11-01 15:38:59Day 2 of The Pandemic Divide ConferenceNovember 15: School Desegregation: Past, Present and Future
November 29: "A Dream Defaulted" Book Launch
December 9: White Privilege: A lecture performance with sound
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About Us
Concerned with the economic, political, social, and cultural dimensions that create an inequity of resources, opportunity, and capabilities, Cook Center researchers take a cross-national comparative approach to studying human difference and disparity.
Our Research
The Cook Center organizes its research as well as its programmatic and scholarship activities around its four primary research domains: Class, Wealth, & Social Mobility; Education & Training; Employment; and Health & Well-being.
Our Programs
The Cook Center has several programs that explore inequality in our communities and engage scholars of all levels, including a summer research program for local high schoolers and a recurring research seminar for undergraduate and graduate students.