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Rachel Ruff Authors ESSENCE Feature on HBCU Graduates and Students Shaping the Future of Business, Fashion, and STEM

Rachel Ruff, Research Associate and Research & Communications Fellow at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center, was a featured contributor in the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of ESSENCE Magazine, where she authored “Leaders of The New School: How Historically Black Colleges and Universities Are Defying the Odds and Creating a New Class of Innovators.” HBCU alums are constantly reminding the world that their institutions are not…

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Keisha Bentley-Edwards to deliver 2025 Payne Lecture in Faith, Justice, and Health Care

Faculty Affiliate Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University, will deliver the…

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Nancy MacLean on panel at the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School

On November 10th, Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Professor of History and…

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William A. Darity Jr. highlighted in Capital B story about NYC reparations

Founding Director William A. Darity Jr.’s work on reparations was highlighted in Capital B…

Fenaba Addo featured in webinar on racial inequities in student debt

Faculty Affiliate Fenaba Addo, Associate Professor of Public Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill,  participated in…

Sandra L. Barnes publishes multiple studies examining faith, sexuality, and well-being among Black youth

Faculty Affiliate Sandra L. Barnes, the C.V. Starr Professor of Sociology at the Brown…

Carliss Chatman writes about Texas ballot proposition to permanently ban taxes on security transactions in Bloomberg Law

Faculty Affiliate Carliss Chatman, Professor at SMU Dedman School of Law, wrote an op-ed…

Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba Co-Authors New Study on Farmwork, Mixed-Status Families & Mental Health

Faculty Affiliate Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy at…

Rachel Ruff Authors ESSENCE Feature on HBCU Graduates and Students Shaping the Future of Business, Fashion, and STEM

Rachel Ruff, Research Associate and Research & Communications Fellow at the Samuel DuBois Cook…

Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba Co-Authors Study on Immigration Enforcement and U.S. Agricultural Labor Supply

Faculty Affiliate Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy at…

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Faculty Affiliate Quran Karriem’s New Appointment featured in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Faculty Affiliate Quran Karriem’s faculty appointment as an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University was…

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Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. Speaks at Bob Moses Conference in Boston

Yesterday, William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr., Founding Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center,…

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Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. quoted in NYTimes article about California’s attempts at reparations

Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. gave a comment in a New York Times…

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