Dr. William A. “Sandy” Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen have been featured in the second episode of a two-part podcast series by Entrepreneurial Appetite, taking a deep and transformative look into the heart of reparations for Black Americans via a comprehensive federal reparations program. In this episode, Dr. Langston Clark of Entrepreneurial Appetite talks with […]
Cook Center Founding Director William “Sandy” Darity, Jr., has been featured in the Winter 2024 issue of Dædalus titled Understanding Implicit Bias: Insights & Innovations. In this special issue, leading scholars, scientists, and policymakers examine the science behind implicit bias—the residue of stereotyped associations and social patterns that exists outside our conscious awareness but reinforces […]
The Cook Center Working Groups are interdisciplinary partnerships of scholars exploring themes centered on the concept of inequality. They nurture the development of new research projects and ideas through formal seminar series, informal brainstorming efforts, and integrated collaborations among scholars across disciplines. In addition, Working Groups provide a source of proposals for extramural funding for […]
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 […]
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. […]
The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University awarded three Career Achievement Awards on Monday, April 1, 2024 in Washington D.C. Award recipients included Governor Lisa D. Cook, PhD, Peter Blair Henry, PhD, and Cecilia Elena Rouse, PhD.
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 […]
The Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE) kicked off its spring meeting in Washington, D.C. The DITE program provides mentorship and workshops to aid the transition from junior faculty status to associate professor for economists from underrepresented groups.
The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University is excited to announce its founding director, William A. “Sandy” Darity, Jr., has been named a 2024 Distinguished Fellow by the American Economic Association (AEA).
