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.
Photo illustration by Aaron Marin for TIME. Our Founding Director and Duke Sanford School professor, Dr. William “Sandy” Darity Jr. has been recognized by Time Magazine as one of 18 Black leaders working to end the racial wealth gap for his work on baby bonds. Dr. Darity’s work, focusing on reparations and economic policies to…
Dr. Lisa Gennetian, Cook Center Faculty Affiliate and Professor of Public Policy with the Sanford School, has been recognized as a Duke Centennial Trailblazer, an initiative by Duke University to honor 100 years of accomplishments and recognize “the faculty and staff leading us into the next century”. Read the full story here. Dr. Gennetian is…
Cook Center Associate Director of Research Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Director of the Health Equity Working Group for the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity and an Associate Professor in Medicine with the School of Medicine, spoke on a panel of experts at December’s Duke Research Town Hall who convened to discuss building inclusion into…
The Historic Durham Armory, the hopping location downtown that once featured acts from Duke Ellington to Ella Fitzgerald and was the inspiration for Ernie Barnes’ The Sugar Shack, hosted another lively event this week: A celebration of the 10th cohort of Young Scholars from the Hank and Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute. …
Sandra Santillan first encountered the Hank and Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute as a high school student at Hillside High School, encouraged by a teacher who recognized her strong writing skills. “I thought I was in trouble,” she says, recalling how her teacher pulled her aside. Instead, the teacher introduced her to…
Sashir Moore-Sloan teaches American History, World History, Women’s Studies, and AP U.S. History at Charles E. Jordan High School, and has taught in Durham schools for more than twenty years. She is also as an adjunct professor in the History Department at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). This summer, she will be an instructor in…
