On August 22, 2024, current and former students who completed the Hank & Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute were honored by Durham Public Schools (DPS) Board of Education. This recognition celebrated the scholars’ dedication and hard work in completing the rigorous four-week summer program and presenting their research to the community at…
Dr. William A. Darity Jr., the Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the Cook Center at Duke University, and Dr. Thomas Cramer were interviewed by Dr. James Peterson on their recent edited publication in Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences special issue on Black Reparations. I think that the negative…
Cook Center Core Faculty Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards recently published a paper in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (JREHD) that details how, while racial discrimination leads to negative cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk among African American women and men, religious coping may be a fruitful mechanism for mitigating these negative effects. Dr. Bentley-Edwards, the Associate…
Senior Research Associate Adam Hollowell, PhD, and Associate in Research Kennedy Ruff published a new article in The Upper New, titled “Four ‘-ologies’ of Inequality Research.” In the article, which expanded upon a lecture Dr. Hollowell–the director of the Inequality Studies Minor–had delivered previously to the Hank and Billye Aaron Young Scholars Summer Institute–the summer program…
Cook Center DITE Fellow Joaquin Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba recently published a paper in the American Economic Association’s (AEA) Paper and Proceedings that details how local law enforcement agencies in North Carolina, under the threat of federal scrutiny, shifted their racially discriminatory policing practices. Rubalcaba, an assistant professor in the Carolina Population Center at the University of North…
Dr. William A. Darity Jr., the Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the Cook Center at Duke University, recently shared his insights on the New York Reparations Commission’s first meeting in an article by City Limits. Dr. Darity emphasized that while efforts like this are important, the racial wealth gap in New…
On Monday, August 5, the Cook Center celebrated its latest group of Hank and Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars with a joyous evening of student research, achievement, and praise at the Washington Duke Inn. 49 students from Durham Public Schools—across two cohorts—convened to present the research on issues of inequities in health, technology, education, labor,…
Dr. William A. Darity Jr., the Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor and Founding Director of the Cook Center at Duke University, shared his insights in a recent EBONY Magazine article by Delaina Dixon. The article addresses the critical importance of reparations for Black Americans in the current presidential election, alongside issues like gun control and…
On Saturday, August 10, the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity concluded its latest gathering of the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics (DITE) program in Durham, N.C. The program, which provides mentorship and workshops to aid the transition from junior faculty status to associate professor for economists from underrepresented groups (most notably, Black,…
In her keynote address Thursday evening, Dr. Kaye Husbands Fealing relayed an astonishing fact to a room of economists: From 2011-2020, the annual number of economics PhDs awarded to black women never rose above the single digits. “It’s amazing how small these numbers are relative to the job that needs to be done,” said Dr….