The Cook Center on Social Equity
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University @DukeU
Advancing social equity via research, education, and policy.
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This afternoon, Session 1 @ #NewSocialContract is all about #BabyBonds, w. addresses by Sandy Darity, Retweets do not mean endorsement., Signe-Mary McKernan, Thomas M Shapiro, & Christian Weller, & a special keynote by Saint Paul, MN, Mayor Melvin Carter (Mayor Melvin Carter). Agenda: csd.wustl.edu/financial-inde… #WealthGap
A child-centric framework for reparations with considerations for policy and implications for child descendants of enslaved African Americans, from Lisa A. Gennetian, Christina Gibson-Davis, and @sandydarity nber.org/papers/w32931
Excited to teach From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the 21st Century by Sandy Darity, Retweets do not mean endorsement. and A. Kirsten Mullen (UNC Press) tightly focused historical argument, connecting the plunder of different periods, incl the receipts & a solution uncpress.org/book/978146967…
👉🏾A two-day symposium at Brown University on the life, ideas, and activism of Dr. Walter Rodney. Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice eventbrite.com/e/what-they-do…
#NCED Register for the 2024 Color of Education Summit now. #COE is a partnership between @dudleyfloodctr Public School Forum Center for Child and Family Policy & The Cook Center on Social Equity. Join as we discuss Collective Action: People & the Arc of Justice. Register here bit.ly/COE_X
New research shows "changes in economic mobility from one generation to the next are possible." Our mobility fellow Shira Markoff details the important Opportunity Insights data showing significant changes in racial and class mobility gaps in the U.S. Read more ⬇️ equitablegrowth.org/new-data-show-…
Mayra Pineda-Torres presented her research agenda and her paper on access to abortion and intimate partner violence at the Diversity Initiative for Tenure in Economics Workshop Duke University and The Cook Center on Social Equity
In an article for the The Charlotte Post, Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards, co-director of the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute Center for Equity in Research, explores how the U.S. maternal mortality gap traces back to slavery-era medical exploitation of Black women bit.ly/3BcvTAB