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…
Faculty Affiliate and Health Equity Working Group Research Associate Dr. John Purakal, an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, was an executive producer on the film Good Guy with a Gun, released early this February on Apple TV and other platforms. Dr. Purakal was motivated to join the production given…
In the recent publication titled “How systemic racism and economic inequality contributed to COVID-19 disparities in America” in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), a distinguished team of researchers collaborates to address critical health disparities. These researchers include: Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Associate Director of Research at the Cook Center and Director of the Health Equity Working Group….
A new article from The Chronicle details the growth of the Inequality Studies Minor, a joint collaboration between the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and the Department of History at Duke University. Notably, the article highlights that since its inception, the minor has seen significant growth, with over 150 Duke students currently enrolled…
Cook Center Founding Director Dr. William “Sandy” Darity, Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen were recently referenced in an article by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation titled How Reparations Could Improve Black Health and Wellbeing. In the article, Dr. Mary T. Bassett, M.D., the director of Harvard’s FXB Center for Health and Human Rights and former…
Durham, NC – On Wednesday, February 7, students from the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity’s History of Inequality course—part of the Center’s Inequality Studies minor—traveled to North Durham for a tour of the former Stagville Plantation, once one of the largest plantations in North Carolina. This trip, led by instructor Will Damron, a…
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…
Cook Center Faculty Affiliate Fenaba R. Addo recently guested on WUNC’s “Due South” program. The interview was a Valentine’s Day-related discussion about the financial pressures leading more young, unmarried couples to move in together. Read the full article here: https://www.wunc.org/show/due-south/2024-02-14/gen-z-couples-moving-in-record-rates
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….
Faculty Affiliate Dr. Jean Beaman, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Santa Barbara, spoke in early February at the Transformative Justice in Education Center. Her presentation, “Towards a Reading of Black Lives Matter in France: Diasporic Connections and Global Social Movements,” discussed themes of her ethnographic research on anti-racist mobilization in the U.S….