The Samuel DuBois Cook Center
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Advancing social equity via research, education, and policy.
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Please welcome our founding director Sandy Darity (
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Please welcome our founding director Sandy Darity (
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Faculty Affiliate Carliss Chatman wrote a column on how Tesla’s move to Texas is testing just how far modern corporate law will lean in favor of management. Read here: http://bloomberglaw.com?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_pkahx3khpp
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Please be advised: Dr. William A. “Sandy” Darity Jr.’s X account has been hacked (@SandyDarity). Any recent posts or messages from that account are not from Dr. Darity. We ask our community to disregard and report all content coming from that account until further notice. — The Cook Center
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Today, Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean will be speak on a panel in the Future of Civil Rights and Democracy Series: “Why Authoritarians Fear Democracy?” Learn more here: http://law.columbia.edu/events?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_dgf1ig7qhf
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Tonight at 6 PM - Faculty Affiliate
@nancymaclean.bsky.social
joins Janai Nelson and Carol Anderson for a panel on democracy and authoritarianism ⬇️
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African American Policy Forum
24 days ago
One week from today: join us for the next event in our Future of Civil Rights and Democracy series — “Why Authoritarians Fear Democracy.” Featuring Janai Nelson (NAACP LDF), historian Nancy MacLean, and author Carol Anderson, moderated by Kimberlé Crenshaw. Link in bio to reserve seats!
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New post from our Faculty Affiliate
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news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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21 days ago
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Bloomberg Law
21 days ago
Opinion: Tesla’s recent shareholder meeting demonstrates how state law can rewrite corporate democracy without ever changing the name of the game. It wasn’t just a win for Elon Musk; it was a test of how far modern corporate law will go to defer to the board.
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Tesla Shareholders Show How Far Law Will Go to Protect the Board
Opinion: Tesla’s recent shareholder meeting demonstrates how state law can rewrite corporate democracy without ever changing the name of the game. It wasn’t just a win for Elon Musk; it was a test of how far modern corporate law will go to defer to the board.
https://bit.ly/4hXrZgl
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Today at 2:30 pm! Featuring moderator
@wilsonhartgrove.bsky.social
and panelists William J. Barber, II;
@nancymaclean.bsky.social
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24 days ago
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Faculty Affiliate Fenaba Addo contributed insight on the impact of college loan debt across racial lines in webinar hosted by the Institute for Research on Poverty. Full article: http://badgerherald.com?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_xawrx1iuf0
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28 days ago
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Capital B News highlights the expertise of Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. in their look what it would take to move forward reparations in NYC. Full article: http://capitalbnews.org?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_nwbhdeatvw
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Next Monday, Faculty Affiliate Nancy MacLean will speak on a panel at the Public Theology in a Time of Authoritarianism symposium. Learn more: http://theologyandpolicy.yale.edu?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_mmwi0qz68s
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Good article about this webinar, featuring our Faculty Affiliate Fenaba R. Addo:
badgerherald.com/news/campus/...
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Institute for Research on Poverty
about 1 month ago
Join us tomorrow, 10/29/25, for our webinar: "The Student Loan Crisis: Policy, Burden, and Borrower Well-Being" with Fenaba R. Addo, Dominique J. Baker, Daniel A. Collier. Learn more and register:
www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/the...
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Faculty Affiliate Sandra L. Barnes’s recent research offers insight on the impact of faith, sexuality, and belonging in the lives of young Black people. Learn more here: http://samuelduboiscookcenter.org?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_fbixgp6rnv
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Sandra L. Barnes publishes multiple studies examining faith, sexuality, and well-being among Black youth - The Samuel DuBois Cook Center
Faculty Affiliate Sandra L. Barnes, the C.V. Starr Professor of Sociology at the Brown University, continues to lead critical conversations on religion, identity, and the lived experiences of Black communities. Her recent publications explore how faith, culture, and structural factors shape well-bei...
https://samuelduboiscookcenter.org/news/sandra-barnes-publishes-research-on-religious-embodiment-in-young-black-members-of-the-lgbtqia-community/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_jkbuakgu01
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New post for
@bloomberglaw.com
from Faculty Affiliate
@carlissc.bsky.social
: "By constitutionally entrenching its pro-market posture, Texas is betting that predictability is the new subsidy."
news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights...
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Texas Plan to Ban Securities Taxes Would Bolster Business Image
Opinion: A new ballot measure to constitutionally ban securities-transfer taxes could quietly reshape Texas' tax landscape if approved in November.
https://news.bloombergtax.com/tax-insights-and-commentary/texas-plan-to-ban-securities-taxes-would-bolster-business-image
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Congratulations to our Faculty Affiliate Sarah E. Gaither, who was named a 2025 Fellow of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)!
https://spsp.org/news/spsp-news/2025-spsp-fellows-announced
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Two upcoming events/deadlines from
@weare-org.bsky.social
: 1. November 12 + 13 - Curriculum Workshop 2. November 21 - Deadline for proposals for Let's Talk Racism Conference 2026
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Earlier this month, Founding Director William A. Darity Jr. spoke at the Bob Moses Conference in Boston, joining Bryan Stevenson, Ruha Benjamin, Rachel Barkow, and others to discuss the lasting economic and social impacts of slavery and mass incarceration.
baystatebanner.com/2025/10/15/s...
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https://baystatebanner.com/2025/10/15/scholars-activists-gather-to-advance-bob-moses-vision-for-equity-and-justice/
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New paper on how heightened immigration enforcement reduces farmworker labor participation and work hours, reshaping the U.S. agricultural labor market -- from Faculty Affiliate Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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In a new publication for SSM-Mental Health, Faculty Affiliate Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba examines how mixed-status families influence the mental health of foreign-born farmworkers, revealing both protective factors and unique stressors.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Founding director William A. Darity Jr. on Gavin Newsom's confounding approach to black reparations: “He’s behaved like most Democratic Party politicians, which is to some degree evade making a full commitment to reparations."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
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Newsom Rejects Bills Providing Benefits to Slavery Descendants
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/california-reparations-newsom-veto.html
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An amazing new article in ESSENCE Magazine from our associate in research Rachel Ruff! "HBCU alums are constantly reminding the world that their institutions are not relics of the past but engines for the future."
www.essence.com/education/le...
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Meet The HBCU Students Redefining STEM, Style And Entrepreneurship | Essence
How Historically Black Colleges and Universities are defying the odds and creating a new class of innovators.
https://www.essence.com/education/leaders-of-the-new-school/
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Faculty Affiliate Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba co-authors a new study showing how heightened immigration enforcement reduces farmworker labor participation and work hours, reshaping the U.S. agricultural labor market.
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Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba Co-Authors Study on Immigration Enforcement and U.S. Agricultural Labor Supply - The Samuel DuBois Cook Center
Faculty Affiliate Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has co-authored a new article titled “The effects of ongoing internal immigration enforcement on the U.S. agricultural labor supply” in t...
https://samuelduboiscookcenter.org/news/joaquin-alfredo-angel-rubalcaba-publishes-study-on-immigration-enforcement-and-u-s-agricultural-labor-supply/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=ap_gnmpxfoakf
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2 months ago
🚨 S4E2 of Questions You Didn't Ask is LIVE! Niasha Fray, Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards & Farad Ali explore the hidden costs of “convenience” in underserved communities, economic inequities, & health equity. Listen & share! 🎧
niashafray.com/podcast
#EconomicJustice
#HealthEquity
#SocialImpact
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Prentiss Dantzler
3 months ago
Happy to share this essay on the unevenness of evictions across the City of Toronto…check it out at
@metropolitiques.bsky.social
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@uoftsociology.bsky.social
@uoftcities.bsky.social
@uoftbrn.bsky.social
@newhousingalt.bsky.social
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💥 Coming soon: Questions You Didn’t Ask Season 4, Series 4 💥 No Health, No Wealth — Economic Justice & Health Equity. Guests Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards + Farad Ali explore systemic inequality, the “Black Tax,” barriers, and solutions for building
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City of Durham, NC
3 months ago
A bold new vision for the future of the Durham Freeway is taking shape. 🛣️ We share the three options being considered as part of the Reimagining Durham Freeway Study on Bull City Today.
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Cornell William Brooks
4 months ago
If you have a kind word spoken about your work, there is no more authoritative and well respected voice than Sandy Darity👏🏾
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Annual Reviews
4 months ago
📣 The latest volume of the Annual Review of Sociology is now online. View the table of contents
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Featuring a new paper, from Director Sandy Darity and past DITE fellow Stephan Lefebvre, "Root Causes of the Racial Wealth Gap: A Critique of the Fed View":
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4 months ago
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The Guardian
4 months ago
A professor had a $2.4m grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected
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A professor had a $2.4m grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected
Jaime Slaughter-Acey said it was ‘heartbreaking’ to discover her study on Black maternal health was cancelled after the Trump administration’s NIH cuts
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/02/black-maternal-health-infant-trump-cuts?CMP=bsky_gu&utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium#Echobox=1754206816
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4 months ago
My new article with Ashley Nickels, Brooke Moeller, Emeline Renz, & Miles Davis-Matthews in
@urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social
explores how nonprofit developers navigate narratives of gentrification in a changing mid-size city (Grand Rapids, MI). Check it out here…
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/10780874251361087
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When we conducted our Color of Wealth series across 6 U.S. cities, Tulsa was the city with the largest black-white wealth and income gaps:
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Read about Kollin's journey on our website:
samuelduboiscookcenter.org/news/kollin-...
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Counterpoint:
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4 months ago
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As we prepare for the end of the Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute, we want to recognize some of the new and familiar faces that led students through their projects. Kollin Brown was a past participant in the Aaron Young Summer Institute and is back this summer as a Teaching Assistant!
4 months ago
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Prentiss Dantzler
5 months ago
Happy to finally see this one in print! In this article with
@jasonhackworth.bsky.social
in
#JournalofBlaclStudies
, we focus on the role of rhetoric in promoting the propaganda of conservative economics (timely!). Check it out…
doi.org/10.1177/0021...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
https://doi.org/10.1177/00219347251350966
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New roundtable from RSF Journal contributors discussing Black reparations! 👀
www.russellsage.org/news/rsf-jou...
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RSF Journal Contributors Discuss Black Reparations
In this new interview with the foundation, contributors to RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences double issue “Black Reparations: Insights from the Social Sciences”
https://www.russellsage.org/news/rsf-journal-contributors-discuss-black-reparations
5 months ago
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🚨 New working paper from our postdoctoral associate Sungmee Kim (
@economee.bsky.social
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edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1214
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The Unintended Cost of Distance Learning: An Analysis of Child Maltreatment
Education personnel play a crucial role in identifying and reporting child maltreatment. However, school closures amid COVID-19 pandemic disrupted this vital reporting system. I causally investigate h...
https://edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1214
6 months ago
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Our Founding Director Sandy Darity 🗣️ "What we now are observing is a situation in which the institutions and organizations that are truly committed to racial equity are continuing to do that...
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6 months ago
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For more about the racial wealth gap effects of the overall bill,
@inthesetimes.com
had a great recap recently:
inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
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The Truth About Trump’s Proposed Cash-for-Kids Savings Scheme
A new proposal for child investment accounts sounds progressive—but its biggest beneficiaries would be families that can already afford to save.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/the-truth-about-trumps-proposed-cash-for-kids-savings-scheme
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The Truth About Trump’s Proposed Cash-for-Kids Savings Scheme
A new proposal for child investment accounts sounds progressive—but its biggest beneficiaries would be families that can already afford to save.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/the-truth-about-trumps-proposed-cash-for-kids-savings-scheme
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PBS News
6 months ago
Along with Medicaid cuts and tax breaks, the massive budget bill passed by House Republicans contains a new program dubbed “Trump accounts” – government-funded investment accounts for every new American baby.
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What experts think about the $1,000 'Trump accounts' for babies
The proposal has bipartisan backing and is generally supported by economists and other researchers, but experts say that there are ways it could be restructured that are more practical and would have…
https://buff.ly/bZutb1J
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Check us out! This labor of love and liberation is finally out. Stratification Economics & Disability Justice have your library order it!
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🚨 New Book 🚨 Stratification Economics and Disability Justice by Cook Center faculty Adam Hollowell and Keisha Bentley-Edwards
@keishabentley.bsky.social
explores how the work of Black disabled activists can and should inform economic analysis of inequality in the U.S.
bit.ly/SEDJ2025
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When we conducted our Color of Wealth series across 6 U.S. cities, Tulsa was the city with the largest black-white wealth and income gaps:
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What's changed since 2020? North Carolina's Black leaders give us their takes
Five years ago, community organizers spoke with WUNC about being Black in America and the change they wanted to see in the climate of 2020. We've now come back to them to hear what they think has chan...
https://www.wunc.org/race-class-communities/2025-06-03/black-leaders-north-carolina-change-since-2020
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