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Working Toward Racial Justice

Working Toward Racial Justice

The "Working Toward Racial Justice" series is produced by Working@Duke and highlights staff and faculty, as well as departments, schools and units that take action for racial equity at Duke. Please share your story ideas for the series.

Four people in a weight room
Duke Athletics Director of Sports Performance and Olympic Sports Performance Coach Dan Perlmutter, far right, talks with colleagues in the weight room in the Scott Family Performance Center. Photo by Travis Stanley.

October 1, 2024

Building an Inclusive Team

Duke Athletics makes equitable hiring part of its game plan

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Guest artist Anton Armstrong, Professor of Music at St. Olaf College, leads a choral clinic on sacred music at Duke Chapel in January 2024
Guest artist Anton Armstrong, Professor of Music at St. Olaf College, leads a choral clinic on sacred music at Duke Chapel in January 2024. Photo courtesy of Duke Chapel

June 18, 2024

Fostering Diversity Beyond the Chapel Walls

With its ‘Unity through Diversity’ theme, the Chapel connects through intentional outreach

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People listening to a speaker
Duke community members listen to Duke University Chancellor for Health Affairs and Duke University Health System Chief Executive Officer Dr. Eugene Washington speak after a solidarity walk in June 2020. Photo courtesy of Duke Health.

February 28, 2024

Q&A: Continuing the March for Racial Equity

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A set of figurines on steps representing the social ladder. Photo courtesy of Pexel.
A set of figurines on steps representing the social ladder. Photo courtesy of Pexel.

February 20, 2024

Q&A: What is Privilege?

Duke’s diversity, equity and inclusion experts explain how privilege can manifest in various forms, including socioeconomic, racial, gender and heterosexual privileges

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Duke student Ezra Belgrave, left, helps Durham high school students refine the circuitry of their high-tech handbags as part of the “Inspiring the Next Generation of STEM Learners” research project. Photo by Stephen Schramm.
Duke student Ezra Belgrave, left, helps Durham high school students refine the circuitry of their high-tech handbags as part of the “Inspiring the Next Generation of STEM Learners” research project. Photo by Stephen Schramm.

October 25, 2023

Transforming Research on Racial Equity into Action

A grant funds Duke faculty’s creative projects exploring how race shapes life

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Sheriece Smith
Sheriece Smith, of the Office of the Provost, participated in a mentorship program for emerging communicators. Photo By Stephen Schramm.

May 16, 2023

Sharing the Story of Progress

Through the Diversity Action Alliance, Duke communicators further inclusion

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Sandy Darity
Sandy Darity, Duke’s Samuel Dubois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies, Economics and Business, has explored the nation’s racial wealth gap for 45 years. Photo by Justin Cook.

March 1, 2023

Bringing an Inquisitive Mind to Inequality

A lifelong curiosity guides Sandy Darity’s influential work on the nation’s racial wealth gap

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