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.
In the American Psychologist’s November issue, Core Faculty Affiliate Keisha Bentley-Edwards links the constant demand for Black women and girls to be resilient to lasting adverse health effects. “There’s a price paid on our health and relationships when we are in constant ‘fight or flight’ mode.” Dr. Bentley-Edwards is the Associate Director of Research and…
Dr. William A. Darity Jr., Founding Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, and Dr. Gwendolyn Wright, the Cook Center’s Strategic Initiatives Director, were recently quoted in The Globe and Mail on the role of race in the recent U.S. presidential election results. Reflecting on the impact of race on voters’ reception…
On November 14th Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. will be on a panel on Panel at the Chicago Federal Reserve. This is a virtual event, Understanding Racial Disparities in Lifetime Earnings and Life Expectancy. The panel of experts include: William Darity Jr., Sita Nataraj Slavov, Damon Jones, and Nicholas J. Hill will discuss historical changes in…
Today, Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy Emerita at Duke University, will speak with Professor Carol Anderson, Janai Nelson, and Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw at Columbia Law School. She will be apart of a panel, presented by The Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies and the African American…
Faculty Affiliate Carliss Chatman, Professor at SMU Dedman School of Law, wrote a column on how Tesla’s move to Texas is testing just how far modern corporate law will lean in favor of management. In 2024, Tesla strategically moved its legal home from Delaware to Texas. A move that positioned the company to benefit from…
Faculty Affiliate Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University, will deliver the Richard Payne Lecture in Faith, Justice, and Health Care this Friday. The event is hosted by the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School. Her lecture, titled Black Women’s Religion and Their Health: When Individual and Institutional Factors Intersect, represents…
