Faculty Affiliate Dr. Nancy MacLean, the William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, was a featured speaker at the Freedom to Learn/Right to Learn Strategic Convening hosted by the African American Policy Forum at Columbia Law School on March 22, 2024. Dr. MacLean’s research focuses on race, gender, labor history…
Cook Center Founding Director William A. “Sandy” Darity Jr., the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, and Economics at Duke University, recently published a book chapter titled “Redress or Socialism?: W.E.B. Du Bois’ Silence on Black American Reparations,” co-authored with James B. Stewart, in the The Oxford Handbook of…
Faculty Affiliate Sarah Gaither, Nicholas J. and Theresa M. Leonardy Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University is co-piloting a Bass Connections team that is working with the Durham Museum of Life and Science to learn about children’s perceptions of what science is and who can be a scientist. Dr. Gaither’s research focuses…
Cook Center Visiting Faculty member Dr. Mónica García-Pérez has co-authored a paper in Diabetology titled “Food as Medicine: FOODRx for Patients with Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in Central Minnesota—A PILOT STUDY”. Dr. García-Pérez’s paper explored the effects of FOODRx, a supplemental health food intervention program that gave disease-appropriate food boxes to food-insecure patients with diabetes…
The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University is thrilled to announce it has received a total of $3.4 million in grants from four institutions to support the second phase of its National Asset Scorecard for Communities of Color (NASCC) surveys and analysis. This research, taking place in five cities, will further…
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 Chronicle of Philanthropy article The Push for Payback: Robert Wood Johnson and 80 Other Foundations Make a Case for Reparations by Alex Daniels. Excerpt from the article: Perhaps the most striking grant Johnson has made was to a scholar at Duke University…
Cook Center associate director of research Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards has been featured in two videos and an article by Duke Global Health Institue (DGHI) where she discusses her recently published co-authored journal article titled Race, Racism, and Covid-19: Lessons Not Learnt. In the journal article, which was published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Dr. Bentley-Edwards…
Visiting Professor Dr. Mónica García-Pérez, a Professor of Economics at St. Cloud State University, was recently named Educator of the Year at the Minnesota State Board of Trustees Awards for Excellence! She is one of just three educators in the entire state to receive this award in 2024. Dr. García-Pérez’s research concentrates on health economics, immigration,…
The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice (University of California Press) was recently named a finalist for this year’s Association of American Publishers (AAUP) PROSE Award in Economics! The PROSE award is one of the most prominent book awards in the university press community. The book has contributions from a number of Cook…