Voices in Equity

What makes the Hank & Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute so impactful for students? In this episode, Ms. Kennedy Ruff, a proud graduate of the Institute, interviews Ms. Carissa Dixon, a Duke School of Medicine employee, about her son Sam’s transformative experience in the program. Through the program’s focus on writing, research, and presentation skills, Sam gained a d...

In the latest episode of Voices in Equity, Dr. William A. "Sandy" Darity, Jr. is joined by Dr. Iwinosa Idahor, Dr. Daniel Kelvin Bullock, Dr. Gwen Wright, and Ms. Kennedy Ruff for a discussion on the transformative impact of the Hank & Billye Suber Aaron Young Scholars Summer Research Institute. Through their insights, we gain a deeper understanding of how the program empowers high school stud...

How exactly can we support Black-owned businesses and entrepreneurship in Durham, North Carolina, especially in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic? In this episode of Voices in Equity , the official podcast of the Samuel Dubois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University, Dr. William “Sandy” Darity hosts a critical discussion on the state of Black-owned businesses and entrepreneurship in D...

In October 2022, hundreds of attendees from throughout the country came together at the Washington Duke Inn to hear speakers from Duke University faculty and other scholars, practitioners, philanthropists, and journalists. The Pandemic Divide Conference included topics on the impact of COVID-19 on wealth, entrepreneurship, health, housing, employment and education, with an emphasis on determinatio...

Episode Summary: Continuing conversations in his own research and events such as Annihilation of Caste , Dr. William “Sandy” Darity hosts three guests to compare and contrast Casteism in India, and Racism in the United States.  Dr. Nico Slate, head of the History Department at the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, joined by his PhD student Arko Dasgu...

On today’s episode, we’re talking about another book that sheds light on that inequality in America. Together, Julia Jordan-Zachary and Shamara Alhassan edited Black Women and da ‘Rona , a collection of stories from many collaborators, rooted in the ways Black women understand their lives, healing, mothering, and advocacy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today's episode is hosted by Keisha Bentley-Ed...

Today we’re talking about chapter 11 of The Pandemic Divide, The Rebirth of K-12 Public Education: Postpandemic Opportunities, written by Kristen Stephens, Kisha Daniels, and Erica Phillips. We have all of the authors of this chapter on this episode, and we’re also joined by Sashir Moore Sloan, Social Studies teacher at Durham Public Schools. When Kisha, Erica, and Kristen wrote this chapter back...

Today we’re talking about chapter 11 of The Pandemic Divide, The Rebirth of K-12 Public Education: Postpandemic Opportunities, written by Kristen Stephens, Kisha Daniels, and Erica Phillips. We have all of the authors of this chapter on this episode, and we’re also joined by Sashir Moore Sloan, Social Studies teacher at Durham Public Schools. When Kisha, Erica, and Kristen wrote this chapter back...

Today we dive deep into Section 3 of The Pandemic Divide: COVID-19 and Financial Disparities, with guests Fenaba Addo and Chris Wheat, and hosted by Dr. William "Sandy" Darity. Topics include: Student loan debt and the 2020 election The racial disparities of student loan debt How Black-owned businesses were affected by the Pandemic The overall racial wealth gap since the Pandemic The uneven distri...

Today we’re focused on Chapter 4 of The Pandemic Divide: COVID-19, Race, and Mass Incarceration, written by our guest today, Arvind Krishnamurthy. We discuss the differences between jails and prisons, the alarming statistics on COVID among the incarcerated population (including employees), the difficulty of finding accurate data, why politicians are reluctant to do anything to help, and if there's...

In Chapter 1 of The Pandemic Divide: How COVID Increased Inequality in America , Dr. Keisha L. Bentley-Edwards and Dr. Paul Robbins dive deep into how systemic racism contributed to health outcome disparities for Black Americans. Today, they unpack that chapter further, touching on experiences from their personal lives, initial assumptions of vaccine hesitancy, why high risk age groups among Black...

LIVE from the Fuqua School of Business, Dr. Adam Hollowell gives us inside access to his Global Inequality Research Initiative course, as he discusses Chapter 10 of The Pandemic Divide, "COVID-19, Higher Education, and Social Inequality." Voices in Equity is the official podcast of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University . The Cook Center is named after Samuel DuBois Cook...

Dr. Mary Bassett is the New York State Commissioner of Health and has been fighting for social justice in healthcare for decades, dating all the way back to her time in college where she volunteered at a Black Panther Clinic.  Experiencing systemic racism in the pandemic was nothing new to her, and today she shares her thoughts on how and why COVID increased the racial health gap in the United Sta...

Voices in Equity is the official podcast of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University. The Cook Center is named after Samuel DuBois Cook, the first tenured Black professor at Duke University who exemplified the pursuit of social justice and equality. With research focuses including social mobility, education, health, wealth, and policy, the Cook Center aims to develop a dee...