Cook Center Founding Director Dr. William “Sandy” Darity, Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen were recently referenced in an article by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation titled How Reparations Could Improve Black Health and Wellbeing. In the article, Dr. Mary T. Bassett, M.D., the director of Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and former […]
Durham, NC – On Wednesday, February 7, students from the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity’s History of Inequality course—part of the Center’s Inequality Studies minor—traveled to North Durham for a tour of the former Stagville Plantation, once one of the largest plantations in North Carolina. This trip, led by instructor Will Damron, a […]
Cook Center Founding Director Dr. William “Sandy” Darity has been honored as a Black Accounting Trailblazer by CPAacademy.org. Commenting on their Black History Month series, they shared the following: CPAacademy.org is committed to honoring the rich history of the first black accounting trailblazers, who took the initial steps to break into this once “exclusive” profession […]
Cook Center Faculty Affiliate Fenaba R. Addo recently guested on WUNC’s “Due South” program. The interview was a Valentine’s Day-related discussion about the financial pressures leading more young, unmarried couples to move in together. Read the full article here: https://www.wunc.org/show/due-south/2024-02-14/gen-z-couples-moving-in-record-rates
Founding Cook Center Director William “Sandy” Darity, Jr., was recently quoted in an article by the The Sacramento Observer and the Associated Press titled ‘The foundation of the wealth’: Why Black Wall Street boomed. The article is a part of an ongoing series by the Associated Press covering the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre. […]
Faculty Affiliate Dr. Jean Beaman, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Santa Barbara, spoke in early February at the Transformative Justice in Education Center. Her presentation, “Towards a Reading of Black Lives Matter in France: Diasporic Connections and Global Social Movements,” discussed themes of her ethnographic research on anti-racist mobilization in the U.S. […]
Photo illustration by Aaron Marin for TIME. Our Founding Director and Duke Sanford School professor, Dr. William “Sandy” Darity Jr. has been recognized by Time Magazine as one of 18 Black leaders working to end the racial wealth gap for his work on baby bonds. Dr. Darity’s work, focusing on reparations and economic policies to […]
Dr. Lisa Gennetian, Cook Center Faculty Affiliate and Professor of Public Policy with the Sanford School, has been recognized as a Duke Centennial Trailblazer, an initiative by Duke University to honor 100 years of accomplishments and recognize “the faculty and staff leading us into the next century”. Read the full story here. Dr. Gennetian is […]
Cook Center Associate Director of Research Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Director of the Health Equity Working Group for the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and an Associate Professor in Medicine with the School of Medicine, spoke on a panel of experts at December’s Duke Research Town Hall who convened to discuss building inclusion into […]
Cook Center Founding Director Dr. William A. Sandy Darity, Jr., the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics at Duke University, was recently named to the inaugural cohort of Distinguished Fellows for the Southern Economic Association (SEA). Dr. Darity was honored in November 2023 at the annual Southern […]