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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Dr. Christopher Ouma (English) whenisayafrica.com Monday October 6 , from 7-9pm!
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Duke Sanford @dukesanford.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Congratulations to Prof. Deondra Rose, author of "The Power of Black Excellence: HBCUs and the Fight for American Democracy," on receiving the Best Book on Race and Political Change award from the @apsa.bsky.social Race, Ethnicity and Politics (REP) section! #AcademicSky #hbcu
Deondra Rose. Cover of the book The Power of Black Excellence. Text says: 2025 American Political Science Association Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section Award for Best Book on Race and Political Change.
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Duke Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences @dukepsychiatry.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
PODCAST: A Duke/Durham team is building a database of >23K people with #MentalHealth diagnoses locally incarcerated 2014-2023, with a goal of better interventions and stronger partnerships between health and criminal justice systems in Durham and beyond. ow.ly/G6gO50X3Qab
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Behind the Data: Mental Health and the Justice System in Durham County
Faculty team Maria Tackett and Nicole Schramm-Sapyta's seven-year project is transforming our understanding and responses to the needs of people navigating Durham’s criminal justice and healthcare systems.
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
📢ICYM: Dr. Tracie Canada in conversation with Dr. Javier Wallace about her latest book, Tackling the Everyday! Tomorrow Sept 16 6pm at Goldenfig books in Carrboro, NC. More info here: t.co/Jm6u9X5Ey9
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https://www.goldenfigbooks.com/event/tackling-everyday-tracie-canada
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Left of Black Digital Series Wins Two Telly Awards for Video Excellence leftofblack.org/left-of-blac...
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Dr. Wylin Wilson - A Labor of Love to Improve Health and Human Connection facultyadvancement.duke.edu/news/labor-l...
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A Labor of Love to Improve Health and Human Connection | Office for Faculty Advancement
Wylin Wilson’s research lies at the intersection of religion, gender and bioethics. “I get to work on hard topics,” she says, ”those really hard things for people to talk
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Dr. Kimberly Johnson will co-lead a new NIH-funded consortium to improve care for people with serious illness and their caregivers. medicine.duke.edu/news/duke-in...
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Duke Investigator to Co-Lead NIH Award Establishing National Palliative Care Research Consortium
Duke is among a handful of research institutions to receive a National Institutes of Health (NIH) five-year, $64 million grant to establish and lead the Advancing the Science of Palliative Care Resear...
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Dr. Chantell Evans (@channyskye.bsky.social) Named a McKnight Scholar for Research in Neuronal Mitophagy www.cellbio.duke.edu/news/chantel...
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Chantell Evans Named a McKnight Scholar for Research in Neuronal Mitophagy
Chantell Evans, PhD, assistant professor of cell biology, has been named a 2025 McKnight Scholar Award recipient in recognition of her pioneering research into the molecular mechanisms of neuronal mit...
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
A Day in the Life of Erica Washington: The Fungi Expert today.duke.edu/2025/08/day-...
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A Day in the Life of Erica Washington: The Fungi Expert | Duke Today
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Welcome to Season 2 of “Duets,” a podcast that showcases research collaborations between faculty, students and community partners across Durham and North Carolina. trinity.duke.edu/duets-season...
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"Duets" Season Two: Collaborative Research at the Intersection of Campus and Community
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
DCRI Accomplishments showcases the publications, awards, and other achievements of our faculty members, including Drs. Wilder and Bloomfield. dcri.org/news/dcri-ac...
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DCRI Accomplishments – Summer 2025
DCRI Accomplishments showcases the publications, awards, and other achievements of our faculty members. Each quarter, a new collection will highlight the most recent accomplishments.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Be sure to check out all of our August new releases, including "The Disturbing Profane" the #NewBook on hip hop and religion from Joseph A. Winters. buff.ly/PhgoZQS
Cover of The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred by Joseph R. Winters. The cover art features an abstract pattern of black circles against a white background. Roughly half of the circles have a solid fill, leaving little of the white background visible. The other circles have a brushstroke-like texture. The title and subtitle are in bold block text, in orange and white respectively. The author’s name appears at the bottom in light yellow.
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
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 Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
New "Lancet" Paper Examines Role of Policy in Equitable Organ Transplant! surgery.duke.edu/news/new-lan...
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New "Lancet" Paper Examines Role of Policy in Equitable Organ Transplant
A new article published in The Lancet and co-authored by Lisa M. McElroy, MD, MS, Onye Akwari Assistant Professor of Surgery, discusses how policy can be a tool to advance transplantation equity. The ...
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
"Why Do You Study That" with Dr. Jamila Minga! www.youtube.com/watch?v=urxG...
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Right Hemisphere Strokes | Why Do You Study That?
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Celebrating John Brown's Impact on Duke Arts! 🎨🎶 arts.duke.edu/with-gratitu...
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With Gratitude: Celebrating John Brown’s Impact on Duke Arts - Duke Arts
As John V. Brown prepares to close his chapter as Vice Provost for the Arts at Duke on June 30, colleagues, students, and community partners alike are reflecting with gratitude on his visionary leader...
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Congratulations Dr. Fannin ! headnecksurgery.duke.edu/news/dr-dana...
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Dr. Danai Kasambira Fannin Honored in 2025 ASHA Awards
Dr. Danai Fannin, PhD, CCC-SLP, adjunct faculty in Duke HNS&CS, has been named a 2025 ASHA AFellow recipient for her exceptional contributions to communication sciences, reflecting Duke’s continued le...
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
📣New Book Alert: Dr. Joseph Winters (Religious Studies) - Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred @dukepress.bsky.social - Save 30% with coupon code SAVE30 www.dukeupress.edu/the-disturbi...
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The Disturbing Profane
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Dr. Jarvis McInnis (English) on the "Afterlives of the Plantation" trinity.duke.edu/news/looking...
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Looking South for the Roots of the Harlem Renaissance: Jarvis McInnis Examines “Afterlives of the Plantation”
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Dr. Mark Anthony Neal on the Legacy of Malcolm X ! @markanthonyneal.bsky.social www.cbc.ca/arts/commoti...
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Malcolm X at 100: How his legacy has been celebrated — and co-opted — in pop culture | CBC Arts
Professor Mark Anthony Neal, and culture critics Sandy Hudson and Matt Amha discuss the commercialization of Malcolm X’s legacy over the decades.
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Summer Readings! Check the new books from BTT faculty - Drs. Canada. McInnis, and Wilson! today.duke.edu/2025/06/summ...
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Summer Reading: Duke Authors’ Hot New Books | Duke Today
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The rocket scientist behind Duke's AI push: A conversation with Provost Alec Gallimore www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
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The rocket scientist behind Duke's AI push: A conversation with Provost Alec Gallimore
As artificial intelligence reshapes higher education and careers alike, Duke has doubled down. The Chronicle spoke with Gallimore about his role as provost, Duke’s academic priorities and its shift to...
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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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 · 05/06/2025
🚨 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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The Alliance for Interdisciplinary Innovation in Computing Educ @aiiceinnovates.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
We are proud to share that our Director, @drnickiw.bsky.social, will present at the National Humanities Center's 2025 HBCU Humanities and STEM Faculty Virtual Institute: "Reconciling the Humanities and STEM: Methods, Models, and Impact." #AiiCEinnovates Learn more: duke.is/NHC2025
Dr. Nicki Washington and other speakers featured at the National Humanities Center's 2025 HBCU Humanities and STEM Faculty Virtual Institute. Image Credit: National Humanities Center
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"At his peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Isaac Hayes’s music and image embodied the potency and vibrancy of “Blackness” during one of the most tumultuous eras in American history." #BlackMusicMonth medium.com/p/6e5d02e84f25
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The Blackest Moses: The Hot-Buttered Soul of Isaac Hayes by Mark Anthony Neal
That the career of Isaac Hayes could be neatly packaged into generationally specific references like Shaft, the Comedy Central animated…
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Duke University's Fuqua School of Business @fuqua.duke.edu · 03/06/2025
“Negotiation begins in the mind – your perspective shapes your power. Recognize negotiations as something that you can shape and not something that’s rigid and fixed." Prof Ashleigh Shelby Rosette on how women should show up in negotiations to overcome imposter syndrome dukefuqua.com/confidence
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The confidence habit - Dialogue Review
Self-assurance is made, not born. ... Read more
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Jennifer C. Nash @jennifercnash.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Black Feminism on the Edge, our @dukepress.bsky.social book series, has 2 new titles coming out - Dana Murphy and Justin Mann. Want to chat more about it? Book ideas you want to discuss? Contact us! (with @samanthapinto.bsky.social) dukeupress.edu/series/black...
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Black Feminism on the Edge
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Professor Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús joined me on #LeftOfBlack to discuss her book, 'Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease' "all of the people who have "Excited Delirium" are considered to be fault or to blame for their own deaths." www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO-8...
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Left of Black | Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús Debunks the Medical Lie of Excited Delirium
YouTube video by John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke U.
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Dr. Frank-Ito has been appointed as the Director of the Clinical Research Unit (CRU). His leadership will enhance the CRU's mission in clinical research and support its alignment with the academic goals of the School of Medicine & our department. Congrats! duke.is/n/np4k
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Announcing Dr. Dennis Frank-Ito as Director of the Clinical Research Unit
Dr. Dennis Frank-Ito has been appointed as the Director of the Clinical Research Unit (CRU), effective May 12, 2025. His leadership will enhance the CRU's mission in clinical research and support its ...
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
In the new episode of the Policy360 podcast, Duke Prof Vicki Bogan (Duke Sanford) discusses what might #tariffs mean for the family pocketbook! duke.is/policy360-bo...
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
Effective July 1, Faculty Affiliate Dr. Vicki Bogan will become the Director of Graduate Studies of the Master of Public Policy (MPP) program at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Read more about Dr. Bogan's appointment here:
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Congratulations Dr. Charmaine Royal - 2025 Global Heath Undergraduate Professor of the Year! globalhealth.duke.edu/news/dghi-ho...
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Dr. Opeyemi Olabisi @opeyemiolabisi.bsky.social appointed as the Chief of Nephrology Division in the Department of Medicine medicine.duke.edu/news/dr-opey...
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Dr. Opeyemi Olabisi appointed as the Chief of Nephrology Division in the Department of Medicine
Opeyemi Olabisi, MD, PhD, will assume the role of Chief of the Division of Nephrology, effective June 1, 2025.
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Dr. Jarvis McInnis will be at New York Botanical Garden ‪@nybg.bsky.social presenting work from his newest book, AFTERLIVES OF THE PLANTATION. ‬RSVP and learn more here: www.nybg.org/event/plotti...
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Dr. Lee Baker Appointed Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at @duke-university.bsky.social Longtime Trinity faculty member to lead office overseeing undergraduate academic experience today.duke.edu/2025/05/lee-...
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Lee D. Baker Appointed Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education | Duke Today
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Congratulation to BTT faculty Stephen Hayes & Divine Kumah honored with named professorships! - Stephen L. Hayes, Esbenshade Assistant Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History and Visual Studies -Divine Kumah, Charles H. Townes Associate Professor of Physics trinity.duke.edu/news/eight-t...
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Congratulations Dr. Lee Baker for his new appointment as Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education at Duke! Longtime Trinity faculty member to lead office overseeing undergraduate academic experience! today.duke.edu/2025/05/lee-...
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Lee D. Baker Appointed Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education | Duke Today
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
On the Centennial of his birth, my meditation on #MalcolmX as #GirlDad Malcolm X the Girl Dad Was Hidden in Plain Sight www.levelman.com/malcolm-x-th...
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Malcolm X the Girl Dad Was Hidden in Plain Sight
On the other side of the hardened activist was a man who stirred his coffee with his daughter's finger and told her it made it sweet
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
During our recent series that analyzed the racial wealth gap in six different U.S. cities, we found that Tulsa was the city with the largest black-white wealth and income gaps. socialequity.duke.edu/wp-content/u...
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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
"Years later, I realized that my mother’s listening practices — the music she played when my father was at work — was as much about her love of music, as it was an attempt at meaning making for her own life" medium.com/p/f86ed858bd6e
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“No Charge”: Shirley Caesar and a Black Mother’s Sonic Archive by Mark Anthony Neal
In retrospect, I was enough of a smart-ass as a child that I might have been that little boy in Harlan Howard’s classic song “No Charge.”…
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Tracie Canada @traciecanada.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This Mother’s Day, I’m honored to write for Essence about the ways that Black football moms are essential to the sport, but often overlooked for their contributions Link below! Happy Mother’s Day to all the football moms and to those who inspire and care for me daily 🌷🌷
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Opeyemi Olabisi @opeyemiolabisi.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I am delighted to step into this exciting role. I look forward to advancing the clinical, research and educational missions of Duke Nephrology while supporting colleagues and inspiring learners!
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Founding Director Sandy Darity is one of the voices in the latest film from Mariam Ghani about human behavior across times of upheaval. From @hyperallergic.com: hyperallergic.com/1012608/pand...
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Pandemic Patterns Explored in “The Fire This Time”
New from Field of Vision, Mariam Ghani’s film “The Fire This Time” is a visual kaleidoscopic trip through the intertwined histories of pandemics, riots, and colonial violence.
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Keisha Bentley-Edwards @keishabentley.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Structural racism is at the root of the care and progression disparities for chronic kidney disease. This paper is the foundation for lifesaving interventions that have been #Terminated by the Feds #CantStopWontStop #KeepFighting #HealthEquity
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The Samuel DuBois Cook Center @sdcookcenter.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
NEW: Research in @nathumbehav.nature.com makes the case for child-centric black reparations: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Authors: Faculty Affiliate @lisagennetian.bsky.social, Christina Gibson-Davis, and Founding Director William A. Darity Jr., all from the Sanford School of Public Policy
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A framework and policy case for black reparations to support child well-being in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
In this Perspective, Gennetian et al. present a framework for child-centric reparations for slavery and legacies of structural and systemic racism in the USA.
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Gustavo Silva lab at Duke @thesilvalab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Amid all, it is energizing to hear nice news! Nine incredible colleagues and myself have been named Bass Chair Professors and inducted to the Bass Society of Fellows for excellence in teaching and research! We got medals and we will receive a physical chair 🪑!! ☺️ today.duke.edu/2025/04/ten-...
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Congratulations Dr. William Darity - newly elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts & Sciences! @dukesocialeq.bsky.social
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The Black Think Tank @black-think-tank.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
April 24 | The Ethics of Now with Dr. Canada @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Join the Kenan Institute and host Adriane Lentz-Smith for a conversation with sports anthropologist @traciecanada.bsky.social and award-winning author and MacArthur Fellow Hanif Abdurraqib on race, exploitation, and hope in sports.
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