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Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, recently saw her award-winning book Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America reissued by Penguin Random House. A previous New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction, the latest […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the “Final Word” by Deanna Townsend-Smith from the Nov. 11, 2023 broadcast of Education Matters: “Mapping the Movement and Color of Education 2023.” Townsand-Smith is Senior Director of the Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity and Opportunity at the Public School Forum of North Carolina. Together we can achieve so much more. […]

Postdoctoral associate Pak Hung Lam recently co-authored a paper in JAMA Open Network, “Long-Term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Academic Performance Among Children in North Carolina.” Dr. Lam’s research, which analyzed a robust dataset of more than 2.8 million students in North Carolina from 2001-2018, highlights the negative effects of such environmental exposure on children’s academic […]

The Cook Center recently received a two-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support the Center’s research into how Black reparations will affect the wellbeing of children. The new project, in addition to comprehensively analyzing the causes of modern-day inequities that Black families with children face, will evaluate the effects of local reparations initiatives in […]

For most Black Americans, the very concept of reparations or financial compensation repaid for enslavement feels like a Sisyphean exercise. But, surprisingly, the national reparations movement is making some headway — through local governments and commissions. Currently, reparations proposals have been implemented or are under review in every region of the country. In Evanston, Illinois, […]

The application portal for the 2024 AEA Summer Program is now open. The AEA Summer Program (AEASP) is a prestigious two-month residential program that uniquely enables undergraduate students to prepare for the rigors of graduate studies—particularly at the PhD level—through two months of intensive training in microeconomics, math, econometrics and research methods with leading faculty. The […]

The current U.S. reparations movement appears to be getting some legs. Recently, New York City Mayor Eric Adams expressed support for legislation that would offer Black New Yorkers repayment related to American slavery. In June, California Gov. Gavin Newsom received the final report and recommendations from the state’s Reparations Task Force, for his review. In August the City of […]

On this edition of Your Call, we discuss reparations for Black communities in California. In late June, the California Reparations Task Force presented a proposal to the state Legislature with recommendations on how California can redress over a century of injustice towards African Americans. The report, which was delivered after two years of work, summarizes the harms […]

The Issue: Much attention is devoted to economic uncertainty at the national or even global level which can impact large swaths of the population directly. Issues such as unforeseen price spikes can impose very real constraints on people’s spending and lead to difficult choices; an unexpected financial shock can spread and cost jobs. Yet many families experience chronic, high […]

Dr. Dudley Flood, the namesake of The Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity and Opportunity (Flood Center), is an educational trailblazer, who served as a teacher and principal before being tasked with helping desegregate schools in North Carolina. He was also a coach, a role that taught him how to take hits and keep going, a measure […]