Please welcome our founding director Sandy Darity (@sandydarity.bsky.social) to the platform!!

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 #SamuelDuBoisCookCenter

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

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 #SamuelDuboisCookCenter

Tonight at 6 PM - Faculty Affiliate @nancymaclean.bsky.social joins Janai Nelson and Carol Anderson for a panel on democracy and authoritarianism ⬇️

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!

New post from our Faculty Affiliate @carlissc.bsky.social! news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

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.

Today at 2:30 pm! Featuring moderator @wilsonhartgrove.bsky.social and panelists William J. Barber, II; @nancymaclean.bsky.social; and John Witt

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 #SamuelDuBoisCookCenter

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 #SamuelDuboisCookCenter

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 #SamuelDuboisCookCenter

Good article about this webinar, featuring our Faculty Affiliate Fenaba R. Addo: badgerherald.com/news/campus/...

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...

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 #SamuelDuBoisCookCenter

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...

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

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

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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. #SamuelDuboisCookCenter

🚨 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

Happy to share this essay on the unevenness of evictions across the City of Toronto…check it out at @metropolitiques.bsky.social… @uoftsociology.bsky.social @uoftcities.bsky.social @uoftbrn.bsky.social @newhousingalt.bsky.social @cgsp-cpsm.bsky.social @sdcookcenter.bsky.social

💥 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 #WealthEquity + #HealthEquity. #BlackSky

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.

If you have a kind word spoken about your work, there is no more authoritative and well respected voice than Sandy Darity👏🏾

📣 The latest volume of the Annual Review of Sociology is now online. View the table of contents arevie.ws/45CDuVR @marywaters.bsky.social

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": www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

A professor had a $2.4m grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected

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/...

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: samuelduboiscookcenter.org/wp-content/u...

Read about Kollin's journey on our website: samuelduboiscookcenter.org/news/kollin-...

Counterpoint: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

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!

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...

New roundtable from RSF Journal contributors discussing Black reparations! 👀 www.russellsage.org/news/rsf-jou...

🚨 New working paper from our postdoctoral associate Sungmee Kim (@economee.bsky.social)! 🚨 Read "The Unintended Cost of Distance Learning: An Analysis of Child Maltreatment" here: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1214

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...

For more about the racial wealth gap effects of the overall bill, @inthesetimes.com had a great recap recently: inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

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. buff.ly/bZutb1J

Check us out! This labor of love and liberation is finally out. Stratification Economics & Disability Justice have your library order it!

🚨 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

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: socialequity.duke.edu/wp-content/u...