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.
Faculty Affiliate Fenaba Addo, Associate Professor of Public Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill, participated in a webinar hosted by the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty. Dr. Addo, along with two other experts, contributed insight on the impact of college loan debt across racial lines. I want to underscore that student debt is not just…
Faculty Affiliate Sandra L. Barnes, the C.V. Starr Professor of Sociology at the Brown University, continues to lead critical conversations on religion, identity, and the lived experiences of Black communities. Her recent publications explore how faith, culture, and structural factors shape well-being and belonging among young Black people with diverse sexual identities. Below are three…
Faculty Affiliate Carliss Chatman, Professor at SMU Dedman School of Law, wrote an op-ed on Proposition 6, a measure on the upcoming Texas’s ballot that would make Texas the only state in the nation with a constitutional ban on securities-transfer taxes and occupation taxes on register market operators. Chatman notes that Texas is already a…
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…
On November 10th, Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean, William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy Emerita at Duke University, visited the Yale Center on Public Theology & Public Policy to speak on a panel, “Theology and Resistance: What History Teaches Us”. She joined Bishop William Barber II and legal scholar John Witt to discuss…
Founding Director William A. Darity Jr.’s work on reparations was highlighted in Capital B story about the possibility of mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani to successfully purse reparations in New York City. Dr. Darity’s says that closing the racial wealth gap is the best measure for reparations. He estimates that New York would have to pay…
