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William Darity

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Making Black Reparations in America

This grant will support research and outreach to address questions about the feasibility of paying reparations to Black American descendants of persons who were enslaved in what is now the United States.
William Darity
Duke University
2021 – 2023
$300,000

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President’s Comment: Effective Programs are Not Enough, We Need Structural Change to Reduce Inequality

Since 2015, the William T. Grant Foundation has funded research on programs, policies, and practices that reduce inequality in youth outcomes. We have supported a diverse pool of highly accomplished researchers, ...
Adam Gamoran
President’s Comment: Effective Programs are Not Enough, We Need Structural Change to Reduce Inequality
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  •  Jul 27, 2021

Announcing a $300,000 Grant to Support Research on Reparations for Black American Descendants of Enslaved Persons

In what may be a historic first for a national foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation today announced a $300,000 grant to the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at ...
Foundation Staff
Announcing a $300,000 Grant to Support Research on Reparations for Black American Descendants of Enslaved Persons
Digest, Issue 04: Winter 2018-19

A New Agenda for Eliminating Racial Inequality in the United States: The Research We Need

A genuine confrontation with racial inequality will require a new way of thinking that challenges the structural roots of racial disadvantage and the consequences of generations of anti-Black discriminatory policies.
William Darity
A New Agenda for Eliminating Racial Inequality in the United States: The Research We Need

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