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Sandra Santillan: Understanding Systems to Make Change

By Rachel Ruff

Sandra Santillan first encountered the Hank and Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute as a high school student at Hillside High School, encouraged by a teacher who recognized her strong writing skills. “I thought I was in trouble,” she says, recalling how her teacher pulled her aside. Instead, the teacher introduced her to a program that would transform her worldview. “That first…

Sarah Gaither on the explicit connections to Black and African Communities in Harry and Meghan’s wedding

By Courtney Vinopal

William A. “Sandy” Darity, Jr. quoted in article on division amongst Black Americans in fight for economic equality

By Samara Lynn

The Recipe for Social Equity: The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity

By Bailey Clemmons

Visiting Faculty Fellow: Marta Sánchez

William A. Darity Jr. Among 10 Dean Awards Recipients for 2020

Global Inequalities Program Kicks off Semester

By Lucas Hubbard

Economics Profession Turns Attention to its ‘Race Problem’

By Amara Omeokwe

William A. Darity Jr. on reparations as the blueprint for dealing with the impact slavery and the “legal framework for apartheid in America’’

By The Providence Journal

William A. Darity, Jr. on students brining attention to reparations at universities and the need for a reparations program

Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards on relationship between obesity and religious service attendance in Males as Megachurch pastor steps away from pulpit

Keisha Bentley-Edwards joins conversation about maternal health gap as Early Childhood Advisory Council meets in Raleigh

https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2019/12/10/maternal-and-infant-health-adovcates-tell-nc-about-racial-disparities/

Cook Center Hosts GIRI Capstone Conference