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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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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…

Cook Center Students visit Historic Stagville Plantation

By Rachel Ruff

Durham, NC – On Wednesday, February 7, students from the Samuel DuBois Cook Center…

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Dr. Darity Honored as Black Accounting Trailblazer by CPAacademy.org

Cook Center Founding Director Dr. William “Sandy” Darity has been honored as a Black…

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Faculty Affiliate Dr. Fenaba R. Addo interviewed by WUNC’s “Due South” show about cohabitating couples and household finances

Cook Center Faculty Affiliate Fenaba R. Addo recently guested on WUNC’s “Due South” program….

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Dr. William Darity, Jr. Quoted in Sacramento Observer/Associated Press on Tulsa’s Black Wall Street and Reparations

Founding Cook Center Director William “Sandy” Darity, Jr., was recently quoted in an article…

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Faculty Affiliate Jean Beaman speaks at the Transformative Justice in Education Center

Faculty Affiliate Dr. Jean Beaman, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Santa…

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