A Face-Scanning Algorithm Increasingly Decides Whether You Deserve the Job
Includes comments by Emma Rasiel, an economics professor who regularly advises students seeking jobs on Wall Street
Topic Race & Culture
Duke scholars are examining forces around race, class, gender, culture, sexuality and religion in their teaching and research and in the community.
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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
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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
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Former Israeli Foreign Minister Discusses Conflict, Two-State Future
Tzipi Livni encourages students to engage on ideology and policy
October 24, 2019
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Conference to Focus on Inequities in Entrepreneurship
Oct. 23-25 event is free and open to the public
October 16, 2019
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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
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Immigration Issues are Focus of Provost Forum Oct. 16-17
The two-day event is free and open to the public
October 07, 2019
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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
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Said@Duke: Yusef Salaam of Exonerated Five on His Wrongful Conviction
Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana asked Duke Law students to remember the story of the Exonerated Five as they begin their careers, and said that speaking to future members of the legal profession has helped them heal the emotional trauma from their case.
September 05, 2019
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Two Members of the ‘Exonerated Five’ to Speak at Duke Sept. 2
The event is sold out
August 27, 2019
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For Some, Church is Good for the Soul, But Not the Waistline
Black men attending church almost daily were nearly three times as likely to be obese than those who never (or very rarely) attended
August 13, 2019
In the News
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NC’s Maternal Health Gap Takes Center Stage
Includes remarks by Keisha Bentley-Edwards, a developmental psychologist and assistant professor of medicine
December 11, 2019
North Carolina Health News
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Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Offers Tours for People With Dementia
Reports on the Reflections Program, a partnership with Duke’s Family Support Program
December 10, 2019
WRAL
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‘The Land’
Commentary by John Biewen, host of the “Scene on Radio” podcast and audio director at the Center for Documentary Studies
December 10, 2019
Oxford American
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Duke University Is New Home for Consumer Reports Archives
Covers the acquisition announcement
December 10, 2019
WRAL TechWire
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Scripture Key to First Draft of WCA Discipline
…Practice of Evangelism and Methodist Studies at United Methodist Duke University Divinity School.
December 09, 2019
United Methodist News
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Christian Doomsayers Have Lost It
Commentary by Peter Wehner, a visiting professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy, who served in the previous three Republican administrations
December 09, 2019
New York Times
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Seeing the South as the Moviemakers See It
Features comments by Alex Harris, professor emeritus of the practice of public policy, on his new exhibit at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art
December 09, 2019
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Why Right-Wing Commentators Distort the History of Slavery and Emancipation
Cites the work of history professor Thavolia Glymph
December 09, 2019
Washington Post
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Finding Truth and Fiction on Film Sets in the South
Features the photographs of Alex Harris, professor emeritus of the practice of public policy
December 09, 2019
The New Yorker
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Problem Drinking Varies by Race
Covers a new Duke study
December 06, 2019
Inside Higher Ed