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William A. Darity Jr. Works on Report for NYC Health Department Studying Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Wealth and Health

February 20, 2026 — A new first-of-its-kind study of nearly 3,000 adults in New York City finds significant inequities in wealth and health outcomes across the 11 most common racial and ethnic groups, showing that Black and Latino New Yorkers have less wealth and unfairly worse health outcomes compared to others. Conducted in June 2024 by the NYC Health Department in collaboration with the City…

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Faculty Affiliate Kisha Daniels is a Guest Speaker for NC Department of Instruction

Faculty Affiliate Dr. Kisha Daniels, an Associate Professor of the Practice of Education at…

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Postdoctoral Associate Xiongfei Lei Presents Paper at Bucknell University

Postdoctoral Associate Xiongfei Lei presented his paper titled “The Unintended Impacts of the One-child…

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Faculty Affiliate Sarah Gaither Leading DukeLine to Support Students

Faculty Affiliate Sarah Gaither, Nicholas J. and Theresa M. Leonardy Associate Professor of Psychology…

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Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean is Featured Speaker at Columbia Law School

Faculty Affiliate Dr. Nancy MacLean, the William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and…

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Founding Director William Darity Publishes Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of W.E.B. Du Bois

Cook Center Founding Director William A. “Sandy” Darity Jr., the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor…

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Faculty Affiliate Sarah Gaither Partners with Durham Museum of Life and Science

Faculty Affiliate Sarah Gaither, Nicholas J. and Theresa M. Leonardy Associate Professor of Psychology…

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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,…