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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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Fenaba Addo featured in webinar on racial inequities in student debt

Faculty Affiliate Fenaba Addo, Associate Professor of Public Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill,  participated in…

Sandra L. Barnes publishes multiple studies examining faith, sexuality, and well-being among Black youth

Faculty Affiliate Sandra L. Barnes, the C.V. Starr Professor of Sociology at the Brown…

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…

Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba Co-Authors New Study on Farmwork, Mixed-Status Families & Mental Health

Faculty Affiliate Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy at…

Rachel Ruff Authors ESSENCE Feature on HBCU Graduates and Students Shaping the Future of Business, Fashion, and STEM

Rachel Ruff, Research Associate and Research & Communications Fellow at the Samuel DuBois Cook…

Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba Co-Authors Study on Immigration Enforcement and U.S. Agricultural Labor Supply

Faculty Affiliate Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy at…

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Faculty Affiliate Quran Karriem’s New Appointment featured in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

Faculty Affiliate Quran Karriem’s faculty appointment as an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University was…

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Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. Speaks at Bob Moses Conference in Boston

Yesterday, William A. (“Sandy”) Darity Jr., Founding Director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center,…

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Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. quoted in NYTimes article about California’s attempts at reparations

Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. gave a comment in a New York Times…

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Kisha Daniels’ Service-Learning Course Featured on Duke Trinity Podcast

Faculty Affiliate Kisha Daniels, Associate Professor of the Practice in Education at Duke University,…

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Melissa Scott: Climate Positivity—It’s What We Need

Former Postdoctoral Associate and The Pandemic Divide contributor Melissa Scott recently published an op-ed…

Keisha Bentley-Edwards discusses links between economic justice and health equity on Questions You Didn’t Ask Podcast

Keisha Bentley-Edwards, Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University, was recently featured on the…

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