Cook Center Founding Director William A. “Sandy” Darity Jr. was recently featured on the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Institute for Research and Policy’s Poverty Research and Policy Podcast. On the December 5th episode, Dr. Darity, along with A. Kirsten Mullen, discussed what a reparations program for Black Americans would look like, topics that the two authors…
Cook Center Postdoctoral Associate Sungmee Kim has co-authored a report titled “Gender Differences in Remote Learning amid COVID-19 Pandemic” published through Georgia Policy Labs and the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. In this research, Dr. Sungmee Kim and her co-author Dr. Tim Sass found that there was considerable variation between the ability of girls…
The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity has officially joined the Mapping the Movement for Racial Equity in Education and Beyond project, an initiative by the Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity and Opportunity. The goal for this project is to establish a visible network of organizations actively engaged in education and racial equity work throughout the…
Faculty Affiliate Sarah E. Gaither, Nicholas J. and Theresa M. Leonardy Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, recently co-authored a book chapter in Untangling the Thread of Racism: A Primer for Pediatric Health Professionals (AAP Books). Dr. Gaither’s chapter, entitled “Considering Multiracial Youth: Identity Challenges and Health Outcomes,” discusses the effects of monoracial practices…
Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Associate Director of Research with the Cook Center and Associate Professor of General Internal Medicine with the Duke Department of Medicene, was recently interviewed by WSOC-TV 9 for their feature news story titled “Doula advocates for Black women to be taken seriously in the delivery room”, by Deneige Broom. In the interview, Dr. Bentley-Edwards comments…
When most people think of research, they often imagine scientists running around a lab filled with high-tech equipment, their white lab coats flapping behind them. But most scholarship happens behind a computer, as researchers analyze data, compose journal articles, connect with colleagues, apply for funding – and occasionally work on a book project. … Fenaba…
Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University, recently saw her award-winning book Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America reissued by Penguin Random House. A previous New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction, the latest…
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is the “Final Word” by Deanna Townsend-Smith from the Nov. 11, 2023 broadcast of Education Matters: “Mapping the Movement and Color of Education 2023.” Townsand-Smith is Senior Director of the Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity and Opportunity at the Public School Forum of North Carolina. Together we can achieve so much more….
The Cook Center recently received a two-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support the Center’s research into how Black reparations will affect the wellbeing of children. The new project, in addition to comprehensively analyzing the causes of modern-day inequities that Black families with children face, will evaluate the effects of local reparations initiatives in…
For most Black Americans, the very concept of reparations or financial compensation repaid for enslavement feels like a Sisyphean exercise. But, surprisingly, the national reparations movement is making some headway – through local governments and commissions. Currently, reparations proposals have been implemented or are under review in every region of the country. In Evanston, Illinois,…