Pioneering Duke economist William “Sandy” Darity, arguably the nation’s leading authority on reparations for Black American descendants of slavery, has been named a 2024 Distinguished Fellow by the ...

February is Black History Month, and the fight for reparations—the idea of repaying Black Americans for the losses they experienced during slavery, both financial and personal—is seeing a resurgence ...

Duke University economics professor William Darity is proposing $350,000 reparation payments to every black descendant of slaves in the country. Darity’s proposed reparations would cost an estimated ...

A lifelong curiosity guides Sandy Darity’s influential work on the nation’s racial wealth gap This story is part of the Working Toward Racial Justice series. William (Sandy) Darity Jr. says his wife ...

Duke University professor William Darity spoke on a Tuesday episode of Dr. Phil about his plan to give reparations to the Black Americans that are descendants of slaves. Darity, who co-authored the ...

Duke University professor William Darity suggests $14-trillion reparations plan Dr. Phil hosted an episode about the morality and practicality of sending reparations to the Black descendants of ...

Efforts at the state and local levels to compensate descendants of enslaved people with reparations are counterproductive, a leading reparations scholar said — because they fall short of what a ...

The enslavement of Africans in the United States has created a wealth gap between Black and white Americans today amounting to a staggering $14 trillion, according to William A. “Sandy” Darity Jr., a ...