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 ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Even though slavery was abolished more than 100 years ago, the wealth gap between White and Black Americans still exists. Experts say this gap was created right after the Civil ...

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 ...

Reparations for past harms to Black people is a concept that many Americans have come to support, but how to put the idea into practice has become complicated and controversial. Sala Menaya-Merritt, ...

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 ...

Duke University economist William “Sandy” Darity has been the nation’s leading proponent of reparations for African Americans. In 2020, Darity with his wife, Kirsten Mullen, co-authored From Here to ...

Some advocates and experts say reparations are the answer. They would not only help eliminate wealth differences caused by systemic racism, but are also “a form of compensation that would amount to ...

2019-03-21T08:40:21-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/a58/20190321084133001_hd.jpgDuke University professor William Darity talked about reparations and the role ...

Walter Russell Mead’s review of William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen’s “From Here to Equality” (Bookshelf, June 18) is filled with interesting and important historical details. Here is one more ...