The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity is a scholarly collaborative that studies the causes and consequences of inequality and develops remedies for these disparities and their adverse effects.
Faculty Affiliate Dr. Henry C. McKoy Jr. gave comments in CBS17 story about new development plans in Durham. Developer Sterling Bay plans to construct more housing units and retail space, which will also include a separate lab and office building. Dr. McKoy is a co-founder of Hayti Reborn, which has been vocal in its disapproval of…
A research team led by Dr. Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein, Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences at Duke and faculty affiliate at the Cook Center, examined how structural factors such as access to housing support and patterns of health care use, including emergency department visits, relate to the risk of overdose withing 12 months following release from…
Faculty Affiliate Dr. Henry C. McKoy Jr.’s abridged version of a speech he delivered at Durham’s Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Church for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Sermon was published by INDY Week. Dr. McKoy is a former presidential appointee of the Biden administration, a former assistant secretary of the North Carolina Department…
Since beginning in the mid-2010s, the Cook Center has steadily and robustly developed its research, programming, multimedia, and educational activities. In just its first decade of operations, the Center already has created a host of different working groups that have written and disseminated innumerable reports and academic papers, developed a minor in inequality studies in conjunction with the Duke History department, published multiple books, launched a podcast, and created and sustained programs to support young scholars and tenure-track researchers.
Q+A: Adam Hollowell and Keisha Bentley-Edwards Dr. Adam Hollowell serves as Senior Research Associate at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and Director of the Inequality Studies Minor at Duke University. He is also the Faculty Director of the Benjamin N. Duke Memorial Scholarship Program and Director of the Global Inequality Research Initiative. An…
Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. and Kirsten Mullen gave comments in conversation on the Marketplace Morning Report with host David Brancaccio and Marketplace’s Mitchell Hartman on the state of reparations after Tulsa’s mayor recently announced a $105 million reparations plan. Hartman has been reporting on the racial wealth gap through the lens of Tulsa,…
Faculty Affiliate Loneke Blackman Carr, Assistant Professor of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Connecticut, published a pilot study in Eating Behaviors evaluating a 12-week online intervention called SATISFY, designed to prevent weight gain by addressing emotional eating. In collaboration with Dr. Rachel Goode (UNC-Chapel Hill), the program combined appetite awareness training with lifestyle strategies…
