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DCORE Faculty To Host Panel on Racially Charged Summer
In recent years, the summer season has given rise to racial tensions in the U.S. due to injustice surrounding police shootings and other acts of violence targeting the African Americans. Two such incidents have captured media attention so far this summer — the July 5 killing of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and the […]
Yomaira Figueroa Selected for Duke’s SITPA Junior Faculty Fellowship
From Michigan State University, College of Arts and Letters: Yomaira Figueroa, assistant professor in the MSU Department of English and African American and African Studies, has been selected as a 2015-2017 Summer Institute on Tenure and Professional Advancement (SITPA) Fellow, and inaugural SITPA Fellows cohort member. SITPA is a mentoring and professional socialization initiative at […]
History Professor Keisha Blain selected as SITPA Fellow
Announcement from the University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Keisha N. Blain, assistant professor in the Department of History, has been selected as a 2016-2018 Summer Institute on Tenure and Professional Advancement (SITPA) Fellow at Duke University. SITPA is a mentoring and professional socialization initiative at Duke designed for early-career faculty to […]
Applying Science in the Real World
Duke Senior Researching the Effects of STEM on Girls in Kenya This Summer By Camille Jackson Senior Jenna Peters was planning to fulfill her dream of becoming a doctor. She thought she’d join a neuroscience lab, but then a summer abroad in Kenya exposed a new interest. “I did not know I loved teaching,” said […]
What is Race? (video)
On July 3, Professor Mark Anthony Neal appeared in UNC-TV’s Black Issues Forum to discuss race, ethnicity and identity with Dr. Candis Watts Smith of UNC-Chapel Hill, and Samone Oates-Bullock, a public policy graduate student, also at UNC-Chapel-Hill. . The concept of race is a complex matter, and often it is difficult to have […]
Your Parents’ Hip-Hop: A Conversation with 9th Wonder (audio)
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/271454483″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”300″ iframe=”true” /] WUNC’s Frank Stasio talks with Grammy Award-winning producer and Jamla Records label head Patrick Douthit aka 9th Wonder about the pivotal moments in Hip-Hop and how the music shapes other elements of life, from fashion to social activism. This summer Douthit is offering “Hip-Hop in Context,” a 5-part […]
Women and Girls of Color: ‘What Truth Is Missing?’
By Britt Jenkins Last month I had the opportunity to attend an eye-opening conference focused on issues affecting women and girls of color. Renowned political scientist and Duke alumna, Melissa Harris-Perry, a feminist scholar and director of the Anna Julia Cooper Center at Wake Forest University, organized the April 29th ‘Know Her Truths’ conference to […]
