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Carliss Chatman writes about Texas ballot proposition to permanently ban taxes on security transactions in Bloomberg Law

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 business-friendly state. And with no personal income tax, no…

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Visiting Faculty Dr. Mónica García-Pérez Publishes Paper on Healthy Food Intervention Program Helping Patients with Diabetes & Cardiovascular Disease

Cook Center Visiting Faculty member Dr. Mónica García-Pérez has co-authored a paper in Diabetology…

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Cook Center Awarded $3.4 Million in Grants for Second Phase of NASCC Studies

The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University is thrilled to…

The Black Reparations Project

Pt. 2 of Podcast Episode on The Black Reparations Project Released via Entrepreneurial Appetite

Dr. William A. “Sandy” Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen have been featured in the…

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Cook Center Founding Director William Darity, Jr. mentioned in article on Robert Wood Johnson Foundations Philanthropic efforts in Reparations

Cook Center Founding Director William “Sandy” Darity, Jr., has been featured in The Chronicle…

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Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards Featured in Videos by Duke Global Health Institute on Race, Racism, and COVID-19

Cook Center associate director of research Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards has been featured in two…

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Dr. Mónica García-Pérez named 2024 Educator of the Year in Minnesota

Visiting Professor Dr. Mónica García-Pérez, a Professor of Economics at St. Cloud State University,…

The Black Reparations Project

“The Black Reparations Project” Selected as a Finalist in the Association of American Publishers (AAUP) PROSE Award in Economics

The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice (University of California Press) was…

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Dr. William Darity Featured in Winter 2024 Issue of Dædalus on Understanding Implicit Bias

Cook Center Founding Director William “Sandy” Darity, Jr., has been featured in the Winter…

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Faculty Affiliate Dr. John Purakal is an executive producer on the film “Good Guy with a Gun”

Faculty Affiliate and Health Equity Working Group Research Associate Dr. John Purakal, an Assistant…

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New Study Highlights Impact of Systemic Racism and Economic Inequality on COVID-19 Disparities

In the recent publication titled “How systemic racism and economic inequality contributed to COVID-19…

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The Chronicle Details Growth of Inequality Studies Minor, Dr. Adam Hollowell Quoted

A new article from The Chronicle details the growth of the Inequality Studies Minor,…

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Dr. William Darity & A. Kirsten Mullen Quoted in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Article on Reparations, Black Health & Wellbeing

Cook Center Founding Director Dr. William “Sandy” Darity, Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen were…

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