The Samuel DuBois Cook Center is a scholarly collaborative that studies the causes and consequences of inequality and develops remedies for these disparities and their adverse effects.
The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity is proud to celebrate the release of Stratification Economics and Disability Justice, a new book by Adam Hollowell, Ph.D. and Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Ph.D. Published by Cambridge University Press, explores how the activism of Black disabled leaders must be central to how we understand and address economic inequality…
In the summer of 2020, WUNC launched a special coverage series titled “Calling for Change.” The series highlighted the voices of Black activists and leaders advocating for racial equity in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder and the widespread protests that followed. Five years later, WUNC revisited several of those voices to reflect on what…
Nancy MacLean, Cook Center faculty affiliate and William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, was recently quoted in a major DeSmog investigation revealing ties between current cabinet members and the organizations behind Project 2025. The DeSmog report found that 70 percent of Trump’s cabinet has direct ties to groups affiliated…
The Historic Durham Armory, the hopping location downtown that once featured acts from Duke Ellington to Ella Fitzgerald and was the inspiration for Ernie Barnes’ The Sugar Shack, hosted another lively event this week: A celebration of the 10th cohort of Young Scholars from the Hank and Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute. …
Sandra Santillan first encountered the Hank and Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute as a high school student at Hillside High School, encouraged by a teacher who recognized her strong writing skills. “I thought I was in trouble,” she says, recalling how her teacher pulled her aside. Instead, the teacher introduced her to…
Sashir Moore-Sloan teaches American History, World History, Women’s Studies, and AP U.S. History at Charles E. Jordan High School, and has taught in Durham schools for more than twenty years. She is also as an adjunct professor in the History Department at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). This summer, she will be an instructor in…
