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: 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
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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
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(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
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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
In the News
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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
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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
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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
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Duke Chapel Holds Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration
Covers the event with keynote speaker Andrew Gillum
January 21, 2020
Spectrum News
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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
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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
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Is Buffet Wrong About Companies ‘Doing Good’?
Commentary by Michael Chavez, the chief executive officer for Duke Corporate Education
January 17, 2020
Forbes
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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’
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#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’
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‘Uncut Gems’ Celebrates Manhattan’s Diamond District
Commentary by law professor Barak Richman
January 14, 2020
Houston Chronicle (The Conversation)