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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center
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Advancing social equity via research, education, and policy. https://samuelduboiscookcenter.org/
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Jun 5
🚨 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
Book cover of "Stratification Economics and Disability Justice" and headshots of co-authors Adam Hollowell and Keisha Bentley-Edwards
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nfconsultingllc.bsky.social @nfconsultingllc.bsky.social · 12d
🚨 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 @docdantzler.bsky.social · 20d
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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Laura Wolf-Powers @wolf-powers.bsky.social · 20d
Great new piece by my @metropolitiques.bsky.social colleague @docdantzler.bsky.social Visible Minorities, Visible Risk: Toronto’s Unequal Eviction (...) - Metropolitics url:https://metropolitics.org/Visible-Minorities-Visible-Risk-Toronto-s-Unequal-Eviction-Burden.html
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nfconsultingllc.bsky.social @nfconsultingllc.bsky.social · 21d
💥 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
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City of Durham, NC @cityofdurhamnc.bsky.social · Sep 3
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 @cornellwmbrooks.bsky.social · Aug 18
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 @annualreviews.bsky.social · Aug 5
📣 The latest volume of the Annual Review of Sociology is now online. View the table of contents arevie.ws/45CDuVR @marywaters.bsky.social
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Aug 6
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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Abstract We address the Federal Reserve's model for Black–White wealth inequality. The Fed view has it that the Black–White wealth gap, when measured with an "expanded wealth concept," is smaller than previously thought and primarily explained by income differences shaped by personal decisions around human capital acquisition and family structure. We argue that the expanded wealth concept inappropriately treats future income flows from Social Security and defined benefit pensions as an asset. Even using this measure, the absolute Black–White wealth gap increases with the adjustment. We present results using the PSID that demonstrate that parental wealth better captures transmission of intergenerational (dis)advantage.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 3
A professor had a $2.4m grant to study Black maternal health. Then Trump was elected
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
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Aug 4
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Prentiss Dantzler @docdantzler.bsky.social · Aug 2
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…

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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Aug 1
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...
Cover image of the Cook Center's report: "Oil and Blood: The Color of Wealth in Tulsa, Oklahoma"
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Aug 1
Read about Kollin's journey on our website: samuelduboiscookcenter.org/news/kollin-...
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Jul 31
Counterpoint: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
Title page of AEA Papers and Proceedings article titled "Setting the Record Straight on Racial Wealth Inequality"
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Jul 31
Here's another for good measure:
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Title page of "Setting the Record Straight on Racial Wealth Inequality"
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Jul 25
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!
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Prentiss Dantzler @docdantzler.bsky.social · Jun 26
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…

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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Jun 24
The roundtable features extensive comments from our founding director William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr., who also was a co-editor of the related journal issue last summer:
Excerpt from Sandy Darity: "There are a number of key points I’d like readers to take away from this double issue. I think one of the most important is that acts of reparative justice are not unusual. They're not abnormal. One of the first papers that appears in the in the volume is by Linda Bilmes and Cornell William Brooks that actually demonstrates how routine the United States government's practice of the provision of reparations is. This raises the very serious question as to why the Black American case is treated as so highly exceptional, historically."
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Jun 24
New roundtable from RSF Journal contributors discussing Black reparations! 👀

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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”
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Jun 18
🚨 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
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...
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Jun 18
..., and the ones that were only displaying a commitment because of the climate of the moment are exposing themselves as not really having that same type of dedication to these principles.”

Read the full article on @wunc.org here: www.wunc.org/race-class-c...
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...
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Jun 18
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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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Jun 4
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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...
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Jun 16
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 Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Jun 16
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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.
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Jun 16
More context on the state of Baby Bonds proposals is available here: www.urban.org/sites/defaul...
Title page of 2023 Urban Institute report: "The State of Baby Bonds"
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · Jun 16
For more about a Baby Bonds proposal that would actually reduce the racial wealth gap: sanford.duke.edu/story/big-id...
Excerpt: How would baby bonds work? It would be a universal program that gives seed capital to every newborn infant in the United States, “like a Social Security program for babies,” Darity said. The federal government would establish a trust for every newborn. Children born to the poorest families would have an initial investment of as much as $50,000. Children of wealthy families also would receive a bond, but a much smaller amount, perhaps as little as $500 for Bill Gates’ children. The average amount would be around $25,000. The program would cover all newborns without considering race, but would help close the racial wealth gap because black households are clustered at the bottom end of the wealth distribution.
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