Sandy Darity
@sandydarity.bsky.social
Visiting Professor of Economics, Howard University
Emeritus Professor, Duke University
Coauthor with A. Kirsten Mullen of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
Emeritus Professor, Duke University
Coauthor with A. Kirsten Mullen of From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century
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"Why can commercial banks legally create money but not local councils or NHS trusts?"
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December 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
"Why can commercial banks legally create money but not local councils or NHS trusts?"
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Oh my gosh, I’m honored to hear that. Thank you!! Will read this asap.
December 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Oh my gosh, I’m honored to hear that. Thank you!! Will read this asap.
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“I wish McGhee's analysis was correct. If it were, there’d be no essential reason 4 anti-black racism 2 persist….we could just enlighten non-elite whites...Lamentably, her analysis is incorrect. Whites gain $ both in relative & absolute terms from the American system...” @sandydarity.bsky.social
The article by Will Beaman corresponds closely with the position I took in my review of Heather McGhee's book The Sum of Us. www.researchgate.net/publication/... Du Bois' "psychological wage" describes a host of tangible benefits to the white working class.
(PDF) Review of Heather McGhee The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together New York: One World 2021 415 pp
PDF | On May 1, 2024, William A Darity published Review of Heather McGhee The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together New York: One World 2021 415 pp | Find, read and cit...
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December 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
“I wish McGhee's analysis was correct. If it were, there’d be no essential reason 4 anti-black racism 2 persist….we could just enlighten non-elite whites...Lamentably, her analysis is incorrect. Whites gain $ both in relative & absolute terms from the American system...” @sandydarity.bsky.social
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We should bring back gladiator fights but exclusively to pit economists and polprofs against each other.
December 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
We should bring back gladiator fights but exclusively to pit economists and polprofs against each other.
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I say his gently, but…
There’s something unspeakably shameful The United States letting people go hungry.
Not because its government doesn’t fix it —
but because tomorrow a few private Americans could, and never notice the cost.
That’s the part that sits wrong.
There’s something unspeakably shameful The United States letting people go hungry.
Not because its government doesn’t fix it —
but because tomorrow a few private Americans could, and never notice the cost.
That’s the part that sits wrong.
December 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
I say his gently, but…
There’s something unspeakably shameful The United States letting people go hungry.
Not because its government doesn’t fix it —
but because tomorrow a few private Americans could, and never notice the cost.
That’s the part that sits wrong.
There’s something unspeakably shameful The United States letting people go hungry.
Not because its government doesn’t fix it —
but because tomorrow a few private Americans could, and never notice the cost.
That’s the part that sits wrong.
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It’s cold outside but beautiful
December 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
It’s cold outside but beautiful
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'R&B icon Raphael Saadiq, who co-wrote Best Original Song contender "I Lied to You" from "Sinners," discusses how collaborating with director Ryan Coogler was similar to his work with Beyoncé and D'Angelo.'
www.indiewire.com/awards/consi...
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Raphael Saadiq Counts ‘Sinners’ Director Ryan Coogler Among the ‘Visionaries’ Inspiring His Best Work
Musician Raphael Saadiq talks to IndieWire about writing Best Original Song contenders 'I Lied to You' for 'Sinners,' and this history with the Blues.
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December 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
'R&B icon Raphael Saadiq, who co-wrote Best Original Song contender "I Lied to You" from "Sinners," discusses how collaborating with director Ryan Coogler was similar to his work with Beyoncé and D'Angelo.'
www.indiewire.com/awards/consi...
www.indiewire.com/awards/consi...
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America, there's something you should know.
The top three kinds of books that young people (under 25) offer to sell me on Dec. 26 are:
- "Chicken Soup for the _____"
- "Oh, the Places You'll Go"
- Books of New Yorker cartoons
I'm just saying. Keep it in mind for graduations and birthdays, too.
The top three kinds of books that young people (under 25) offer to sell me on Dec. 26 are:
- "Chicken Soup for the _____"
- "Oh, the Places You'll Go"
- Books of New Yorker cartoons
I'm just saying. Keep it in mind for graduations and birthdays, too.
December 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
America, there's something you should know.
The top three kinds of books that young people (under 25) offer to sell me on Dec. 26 are:
- "Chicken Soup for the _____"
- "Oh, the Places You'll Go"
- Books of New Yorker cartoons
I'm just saying. Keep it in mind for graduations and birthdays, too.
The top three kinds of books that young people (under 25) offer to sell me on Dec. 26 are:
- "Chicken Soup for the _____"
- "Oh, the Places You'll Go"
- Books of New Yorker cartoons
I'm just saying. Keep it in mind for graduations and birthdays, too.
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Good news!
Gut bacteria in reptiles and amphibians have #cancer fighting properties and a specific one attacks tumor tissue while amping up the immune response, enlisting extra help from T cells, B cells, and neutrophils to shrink tumors, sometimes completely.
www.sciencealert.com/powerful-ant...
Gut bacteria in reptiles and amphibians have #cancer fighting properties and a specific one attacks tumor tissue while amping up the immune response, enlisting extra help from T cells, B cells, and neutrophils to shrink tumors, sometimes completely.
www.sciencealert.com/powerful-ant...
Powerful Anti-Cancer Drug Discovered Inside Japanese Tree Frog
Scientists have discovered a promising new approach to fighting cancer in the gut bacteria of a Japanese tree frog, with one strain completely shrinking tumors in mice, with no severe side effects.
www.sciencealert.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Good news!
Gut bacteria in reptiles and amphibians have #cancer fighting properties and a specific one attacks tumor tissue while amping up the immune response, enlisting extra help from T cells, B cells, and neutrophils to shrink tumors, sometimes completely.
www.sciencealert.com/powerful-ant...
Gut bacteria in reptiles and amphibians have #cancer fighting properties and a specific one attacks tumor tissue while amping up the immune response, enlisting extra help from T cells, B cells, and neutrophils to shrink tumors, sometimes completely.
www.sciencealert.com/powerful-ant...
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'The Hayti Heritage Center stands as one of Durham’s most powerful symbols of Black history, creativity, and resilience. Kenia Caze Thompson sits down with Monét Marshall, an artist and one of the center’s board members, and historian Andre Vann.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo63...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo63...
The Return of Hayti | Black Issues Forum
YouTube video by PBS North Carolina
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December 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
'The Hayti Heritage Center stands as one of Durham’s most powerful symbols of Black history, creativity, and resilience. Kenia Caze Thompson sits down with Monét Marshall, an artist and one of the center’s board members, and historian Andre Vann.'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo63...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo63...
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Jim Crow to Trump: Reconsidering the Psychological Wage
Jim Crow to Trump: Reconsidering the Psychological Wage
by Will Beaman W.E.B. Du Bois’s “psychological wage” has long been treated as a metaphor. In Black Reconstruction, he describes how white workers, denied meaningful economic uplift, found compensat…
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December 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Jim Crow to Trump: Reconsidering the Psychological Wage
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“According to historians and political scientists who study protest: very. From emancipation to women’s suffrage, from civil rights to Black Lives Matter, mass movement has shaped the arc of American history.” @justprotest.bsky.social
How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very
From emancipation to women’s suffrage, civil rights and BLM, mass movement has shaped the arc of US history
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December 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“According to historians and political scientists who study protest: very. From emancipation to women’s suffrage, from civil rights to Black Lives Matter, mass movement has shaped the arc of American history.” @justprotest.bsky.social
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A quick view of comet 24P/Schaumasse in the vicinity of spiral galaxy Messier 100, from Christmas night, despite the light rain. The comet appears trailed, as it has moved a couple arcminutes in the span of the 40 minutes the data were acquired. More in ALT. #cometWatch #astrophotography #astronomy
December 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
A quick view of comet 24P/Schaumasse in the vicinity of spiral galaxy Messier 100, from Christmas night, despite the light rain. The comet appears trailed, as it has moved a couple arcminutes in the span of the 40 minutes the data were acquired. More in ALT. #cometWatch #astrophotography #astronomy
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true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
December 26, 2025 at 11:37 AM
true. that's bc you've allowed your sense of style to be narrowly defined by fashion brands, instead of thinking about it in terms of cultural history. over the course of the 20th century, many groups have dressed well, even if they didn't conform to fashion trends or bourgeois respectability
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“How did we end up in this age of rising authoritarianism?. . .Chain of Ideas. . .argues that a once-fringe conspiracy has an outsized impact on the anti-democratic age we now find ourselves in.”
Shouts to Oprah Daily for including Chain of Ideas in this list.
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Shouts to Oprah Daily for including Chain of Ideas in this list.
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The Most Anticipated Books of 2026 Include the Triumphant Returns of Michael Pollan and Lindy West
Jesmyn Ward, George Saunders, and Elizabeth Strout return, and stars like Liza Minnelli, Octavia Spencer, and Laverne Cox spill all the tea.
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December 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
“How did we end up in this age of rising authoritarianism?. . .Chain of Ideas. . .argues that a once-fringe conspiracy has an outsized impact on the anti-democratic age we now find ourselves in.”
Shouts to Oprah Daily for including Chain of Ideas in this list.
www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen...
Shouts to Oprah Daily for including Chain of Ideas in this list.
www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen...
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Danish conservative member of parliament on Denmark's 9.5% GDP growth rate.
"Not that we are satisfied, but the current growth rate in Denmark is decent. We will start buying USA states shortly."
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"Not that we are satisfied, but the current growth rate in Denmark is decent. We will start buying USA states shortly."
www.alternet.org/denmark-trum...
Conservative Denmark lawmaker mocks Trump's push to take over Greenland
President Donald Trump's ongoing efforts to make Greenland a part of the United States are being met with ridicule — even from a high-ranking conservative member of Denmark's parliament.In a Thursday ...
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December 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Danish conservative member of parliament on Denmark's 9.5% GDP growth rate.
"Not that we are satisfied, but the current growth rate in Denmark is decent. We will start buying USA states shortly."
www.alternet.org/denmark-trum...
"Not that we are satisfied, but the current growth rate in Denmark is decent. We will start buying USA states shortly."
www.alternet.org/denmark-trum...
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This is related to the idea that if white people don't have 100% of high-prestige jobs, awards, recognition etc it's evidence of discrimination against whiteness. It's where "great replacement" logic leads you. bsky.app/profile/donm...
I see this on the right - the idea that the existence of foreign academic staff and faculty are evidence of discrimination against natives. It's not discrimination, its selection: academia is a global marketplace, the US is the biggest center of that market. So yes, some foreign talent will win.
Striking nativist editorializing by the federal judge who just upheld the $100,000 tax on high-skill immigrants.
She opines that it’s “troubling” that universities hire talent from abroad at all, instead of only native grads.
Then admits (!) that opinion is irrelevant (So why write it? Venting?)
She opines that it’s “troubling” that universities hire talent from abroad at all, instead of only native grads.
Then admits (!) that opinion is irrelevant (So why write it? Venting?)
December 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This is related to the idea that if white people don't have 100% of high-prestige jobs, awards, recognition etc it's evidence of discrimination against whiteness. It's where "great replacement" logic leads you. bsky.app/profile/donm...
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It’s crazy how many podcasts are podcasters interviewing other podcasters
December 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
It’s crazy how many podcasts are podcasters interviewing other podcasters
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now streaming on @criterionchannl.bsky.social
‘Will’ Review: Heartache and Hope in Harlem
In Jessie Maple’s restored 1981 drama, one of the first feature-length films by a Black woman, a heroin addict mentors a young boy and tries to find his footing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/m...
‘Will’ Review: Heartache and Hope in Harlem
In Jessie Maple’s restored 1981 drama, one of the first feature-length films by a Black woman, a heroin addict mentors a young boy and tries to find his footing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/m...
‘Will’ Review: Heartache and Hope in Harlem
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
now streaming on @criterionchannl.bsky.social
‘Will’ Review: Heartache and Hope in Harlem
In Jessie Maple’s restored 1981 drama, one of the first feature-length films by a Black woman, a heroin addict mentors a young boy and tries to find his footing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/m...
‘Will’ Review: Heartache and Hope in Harlem
In Jessie Maple’s restored 1981 drama, one of the first feature-length films by a Black woman, a heroin addict mentors a young boy and tries to find his footing.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/m...
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With Democratic Public Finance at the heart of a new, bold, green economic vision, Zack Polanski can deliver on his promise to bring hope back into British politics.
Zack Polanski’s Bold Politics Requires an Even Bolder Economic Vision: The Case for Democratic Public Finance
by Rob Hawkes The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensio…
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December 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
With Democratic Public Finance at the heart of a new, bold, green economic vision, Zack Polanski can deliver on his promise to bring hope back into British politics.
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lol #economics isn't a monolith and I need #bluesky to stop acting like it is.
For example, there is an entire sub discipline of economics founded by @sandydarity.bsky.social called Stratification Economics that literally embeds structural inequality into economic analysis. 🤷🏿♀️
For example, there is an entire sub discipline of economics founded by @sandydarity.bsky.social called Stratification Economics that literally embeds structural inequality into economic analysis. 🤷🏿♀️
December 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
lol #economics isn't a monolith and I need #bluesky to stop acting like it is.
For example, there is an entire sub discipline of economics founded by @sandydarity.bsky.social called Stratification Economics that literally embeds structural inequality into economic analysis. 🤷🏿♀️
For example, there is an entire sub discipline of economics founded by @sandydarity.bsky.social called Stratification Economics that literally embeds structural inequality into economic analysis. 🤷🏿♀️
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This post inspired me to find & follow @sandydarity.bsky.social, bc as he said on the bad place, reparations need to be federal. (Someday 🤞🏼)
Potential reparations outlined in the bill include official statements of apology, monetary compensation, property tax rebates, social service assistance, as well as licensing and permit fee waivers and reimbursement.
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Maryland will consider slavery reparations after Gov. Wes Moore’s veto is overridden
Maryland will create a commission to study potential reparations for slavery after lawmakers voted Tuesday to override a veto by Gov. Wes Moore — currently the nation’s only Black governor — that d…
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December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This post inspired me to find & follow @sandydarity.bsky.social, bc as he said on the bad place, reparations need to be federal. (Someday 🤞🏼)
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Hear our director @sandydarity.bsky.social on the key differences between Baby Bonds and Trump Accounts:
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Expert on racial wealth gap reflects on Trump accounts
The Trump Administration is releasing more information this week on the Trump Accounts that Congress recently passed, which would give eligible kids born from 2025 to 2028 $1,000 from the government.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Hear our director @sandydarity.bsky.social on the key differences between Baby Bonds and Trump Accounts:
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...