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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 Center, was a featured contributor in the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of ESSENCE Magazine, where she authored “Leaders of The New School: How Historically Black Colleges and Universities Are Defying the Odds and Creating a New Class of Innovators.” HBCU alums are constantly reminding the world that their institutions are not…

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New Books Network – The Black Reparations Project

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A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a…

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Work isn’t working for a lot of America

By Tanzina Vega

Like many other Gen Xers, I had my first job at 14 years old…

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New study indicates the US wage gap between Black and white men may be bigger than previously understood

By Clark Merrefield

For journalists, researchers and policymakers interested in understanding how job earnings differ across demographic…

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Top Reparations Scholar Dr. Sandy Darity Appears On TV Special On 40 Acres And A Mule

By Ann Brown

The issue of reparations has been a topic of intense and heated debate and…

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Building the Numbers of Black Economists Also Brings Attention to Neglected Issues

By Thomasi McDonald

West Coast economist Brandon Ware was inspired to research food deserts when he had…

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Duke Ph.D. students vote to unionize, bargain collectively with university

Ph.D students at Duke University in Durham voted overwhelmingly in favor of unionizing Tuesday,…

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Global household wealth dipped in 2022, but so did inequality

Global household wealth – basically, total assets – declined in 2022. That’s according to a…

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DITE Conference Concludes with Discussion and Honors

By Lucas Hubbard

The August gathering of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity’s Diversity Initiative…

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The burden of student loan debt for Black women in North Carolina and prospects for relief

By: Grace Vitaglione Eleanor Tyson, 22, is from Winston-Salem and is a public policy…

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Latest DITE Cohort Convenes in Durham

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The Abysmal State of Reporting Suicides from U.S. Prisons

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Jaylen Brown wants to invest in Boston, bridge racial wealth gap with his contract money

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