News from Duke

- Politics & Public Policy
- Race & Culture
Said@Duke: Dikgang Moseneke on Freedom
Dikgang Moseneke, former deputy chief justice of South Africa and a 2020 Rubenstein Fellow, spoke this week at the Robert R. Wilson Lecture sponsored by Duke's Center for International Development and the Sanford School of Public Policy.

January 23, 2020
- Politics & Public Policy
- Race & Culture
Said@Duke: Dikgang Moseneke on Freedom and the Internet
Dikgang Moseneke, former deputy chief justice of South Africa and a 2020 Rubenstein Fellow, spoke this week at the Robert R. Wilson Lecture sponsored by Duke's Center for International Devceloment and the Sanfoird School of Public Policy.

January 23, 2020
- Politics & Public Policy
- Race & Culture
(UPDATED 1/8/20) Killing of Iranian Commander Raises Legal, Strategic Questions
Duke professors offer differing views of last week's incident

January 06, 2020
- Race & Culture
Said@Duke: Kinohi Nishikawa on Novel Design and Black Pulp Fiction
Kinohi Nishikawa, assistant professor of English and African American Studies at Princeton University, spoke this week at Duke as part of the Department of African & African American Studies’ 50th anniversary speaker series.

December 06, 2019
- Race & Culture
Said@Duke: Professor Mel Watkins on Black Comedy
Mel Watkins, a professor of humanities at Colgate University, spoke this week as part of the fall course, AAAS 331: Dick Gregory and the History of Black Comedy.

November 22, 2019
- Politics & Public Policy
- Race & Culture
Former Israeli Foreign Minister Discusses Conflict, Two-State Future
Tzipi Livni encourages students to engage on ideology and policy

October 24, 2019
Conference to Focus on Inequities in Entrepreneurship
Oct. 23-25 event is free and open to the public

October 16, 2019
- Race & Culture
More Than Just 9 Words: How Duke Is Improving Civil Rights Movement Education
Duke's Center for Documentary Studies is teaming with the SNCC Legacy Project to bring teachers to campus for training

October 14, 2019
Immigration Issues are Focus of Provost Forum Oct. 16-17
The two-day event is free and open to the public

October 07, 2019
- Race & Culture
- University News
Divinity Launches Program to Strengthen Leadership in Black Church and Beyond
Five-year multidisciplinary collaboration will bring together scholars and pastoral leaders

September 10, 2019

News about Duke

- Race & Culture
A Church Allegedly Asked Older Members to Leave. Leaders Say That Didn’t Actually Happen
Quotes Mark Chaves, a sociology professor who studies congregations in America

January 22, 2020

Washington Post
- Race & Culture
Where We Live: Exploring the Housing Crisis in North Carolina
Includes comments by Jesse McCoy, a lecturing fellow at the Law School and supervising attorney for the Duke Law Civil Justice Clinic

January 22, 2020

WUNC
- Race & Culture
Why Harry and Meghan’s ‘Megxit’ Is a Crossroads for the UK on Race
Includes comments by Sarah Elizabeth Gaither, assistant professor of Psychology & Neuroscience

January 22, 2020

PBS NewsHour
- Race & Culture
Book: How Martin Luther King Jr. Used the Pulpit to ‘Redeem’ America’s Soul
Q&A with Richard Lischer, professor emeritus of preaching at Duke Divinity School

January 21, 2020

Presbyterian Outlook, RNS
- Race & Culture
- University News
Duke Chapel Holds Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
Covers the event with keynote speaker Andrew Gillum

January 21, 2020

Spectrum News
- Race & Culture
The Methodist Church Will Probably Split in Two Over Homosexuality, and That’s Bad for All of Us
Includes comments by Will Willimon, professor of the practice of Christian ministry at Duke Divinity School and a bishop in the United Methodist Church

January 17, 2020

CNN
- Race & Culture
Is Buffet Wrong About Companies ‘Doing Good’?
Commentary by Michael Chavez, the chief executive officer for Duke Corporate Education

January 17, 2020

Forbes
- Politics & Public Policy
- Race & Culture
Youth and Civic Action
Interview with political science professor Sunshine Hillygus, co-author of the new book, “Making Young Voters: Converting Civic Attitudes into Civic…

January 16, 2020

WNCU’s ‘The Measure of Everyday Life’
- Race & Culture
#BackChannel: Year of Lizzo, Evolving Legacies of Nipsey Hussle and Prince
Interview with Mark Anthony Neal, professor and chair of the Department of African & African American Studies

January 16, 2020

WUNC’s ‘The State of Things’
- Race & Culture
‘Uncut Gems’ Celebrates Manhattan’s Diamond District
Commentary by law professor Barak Richman

January 14, 2020

Houston Chronicle (The Conversation)