Woodstock Institute celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act with movement leaders and industry experts.

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Professor Jean Beaman co-edited “The Oxford Handbook of Intersectional Approaches to Migration, Gender, and Sexuality,” a new volume that examines migration through gender, sexuality, race, class,…

As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, new research from Oxfam and PolicyLink examines the legacy of the racial wealth gap in the US and how stock buybacks and concentrated stock ownership ...

This article discusses the impact of Donald Trump's presidency on Black economic mobility, highlighting that economic mobility encompasses more than just income—it includes access to homeownership, education, healthcare, and political representation. Critics argue that Trump's policies, such as cuts to diversity initiatives and social programs, disproportionately harm Black communities, which already face significant barriers to wealth accumulation. Data indicates that Black families have significantly lower median wealth and homeownership rates compared to white families. The job loss impacts of policy changes are particularly severe for Black women and men. The article raises concerns about the administration’s stance on race-conscious housing initiatives and the potential negative effects on Black-owned businesses due to the rollback of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs. Furthermore, it emphasizes that economic security is intertwined with healthcare access and the im…

Where land dispossession and the Black–white wealth gap actually meet — farmland loss, redlined-out home equity, heirs' property — and where they do not: rent capture is not reparations and does not, ...

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For decades, William Darity has done the math that most policymakers won't touch. In this conversation, he breaks down the racial wealth gap household by household, makes the case for why neither entr...

Opinion: Columnist Carliss Chatman writes that corporate law has for decades been studied with Delaware as the default framework, and other jurisdictions treated largely as variations on that model. That framing is convenient, but it is also wrong.

We have been given a false choice of purported safety versus care, and we must name it as such.

The frequent criticism of a programme of reparations for Black Americans is that, however justified, no feasible blueprint exists for its implementation. We provide a detailed outline of a viable plan...

Black Lives: The High Cost of Segregation by Robynn Cox, Jamein P. Cunningham, Alberto Ortega and Kenneth Whaley. Published in volume 18, issue 1, pages 1-34 of American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, February 2026, Abstract: Exploiting the arrangement of railroad tracks in northern cities, we e...

We examine the relationship between race and home values in Durham, North Carolina using two methods to partition the city geographically: first, usin…

Publication date: Available online 9 February 2026 Source: Regional Science and Urban Economics Author(s): Omer Ali, Nicholas Datto, Pei Yi Zhuo, Clinton Boyd Jr., William A. Darity Jr.

Joaquin Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba, Alberto Ortega; Worker-Driven Social Responsibility and Infant Health. Demography 1 December 2025; 62 (6): 1973–1999. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00703370-12352500

Faculty Affiliate Omer Ali is an Assistant Professor of economics at the University of Pittsburgh, and previous postdoctoral fellow a the Cook Center. Ali is the lead researcher on a new article published in Regional Science and Urban Economics this month examining the relationship between race and...

Despite claims that the accounts will “jumpstart the American Dream,” some economists say the initiative will actually exacerbate the wealth divide

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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.

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.