Keisha Bentley-Edwards (@keisha_bentley) 's Twitter Profile
Keisha Bentley-Edwards

@keisha_bentley

Duke Assoc Prof researching & teaching about racism, health, women. Assoc Dir of Research for @DukeSocialEQ; She/Her

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Listen in as Julia Jordan-Zachery, Shamara Wyllie , and Keisha Bentley-Edwards describe navigating COVID, family, work, and activism throughout the pandemic. Listen for more on our website! #blackwomen #blackwomenstories #blackwomentalkcovid #oralhistories #podcast #covid #blackwometalkcovid

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Join WE ARE in support of DEI. Record yourself sharing your stance on diversity, equity, & inclusion. It’s important to say the actual words & not just DEI Use Hashtags: #DiversityEquityInclusion #ForwardTogether #WeAintGoingBack Tag us we are tiktok.com/t/ZP8YWXFkn/

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Mamie Phipps Clark, Ph.D. changed how we understand child development, education, and the lasting impact of segregation. Her groundbreaking research on racial identity in young children—most famously the doll test—revealed how discrimination shaped self-perception. Her findings

Mamie Phipps Clark, Ph.D. changed how we understand child development, education, and the lasting impact of segregation.

Her groundbreaking research on racial identity in young children—most famously the doll test—revealed how discrimination shaped self-perception.

Her findings
The Cook Center on Social Equity (@dukesocialeq) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Associate Director of Research and Director of our Health Equity Working Group Keisha Bentley-Edwards was spotlighted by the Black Caucus of the Society for Research in Child Development (Society for Research in Child Development) for Black History Month! Read the full Q+A here: srcd.org/news/member-sp…

Associate Director of Research and Director of our Health Equity Working Group <a href="/Keisha_Bentley/">Keisha Bentley-Edwards</a> was spotlighted by the Black Caucus of the Society for Research in Child Development (<a href="/SRCDtweets/">Society for Research in Child Development</a>) for Black History Month!

Read the full Q+A here: srcd.org/news/member-sp…
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Early career scholars and doc students. Here’s your chance to get meaningful insights from giants in the field. I have personally benefited from their wisdom. If you’re heading to #SRCD25, sign up for #ChatWithLeaders #SRCDBlackCaucus #BHM

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.Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute named 8 orgs as recipients of its Advancing Health Equity Together Grant program. Keisha Bentley-Edwards, co-director for CTSI’s Center for Equity in Research and a DGHI affiliate, says the orgs chosen hold great promise for promoting health equity. shorturl.at/6EKGs

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The 2025 Let’s Talk Racism Conference is fast approaching! Here are more of some of the amazing presenter sessions taking place on March 22nd. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this powerful event. Register now and join the movement! Learn more here: weare-nc.org/lets-talk-raci…

The 2025 Let’s Talk Racism Conference is fast approaching! Here are more of some of the amazing presenter sessions taking place on March 22nd. 
Don’t miss your chance to be part of this powerful event. Register now and join the movement!
Learn more here: weare-nc.org/lets-talk-raci…
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Revisit episodes our podcast 1, “Covid Unmasked”, here with this clip about the different treatments our guests have experienced with or without insurance. Check out the whole episode on our website! #blackwomentalkcovid #blackwomen #oralhistories #covid #podcast

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Attention #SRCD25 Attendees: The SRCD Black Caucus Pre-Conference event has been renamed “Choosing Joy: A Black Caucus Restorative Reception.” To register, please visit bit.ly/41Wprr7.

Attention #SRCD25 Attendees: The SRCD Black Caucus Pre-Conference event has been renamed “Choosing Joy: A Black Caucus Restorative Reception.” To register, please visit bit.ly/41Wprr7.
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Throw back to episode two of our podcast where our guests Dr. Shamara Wyllie Alhassan and Keisha Bentley Edwards discuss some of the unexpected “Covid gifts” that came along with the COVID-19 pandemic. Give the full podcast a listen at our website!

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“Were You There?”..."became a defiant response from a culture that long understood that filling the air with the sound of Black grief and Black trauma was perhaps the most defiant act possible." medium.com/@tnimixtape/we…

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💡Join us for a new symposium focused on strengthening rural health and including rural communities in research. Featuring experts from Duke University School of Medicine Duke University School of Nursing & Duke Divinity School. 📆 May 8 ⏰ 12:30-2 p.m. 📍 Chesterfield Building 🔗 Register: duke.is/9/6sgy

đź’ˇJoin us for a new symposium focused on strengthening rural health and including rural communities in research. Featuring experts from <a href="/DukeMedSchool/">Duke University School of Medicine</a> <a href="/DukeU_Nursing/">Duke University School of Nursing</a> &amp; <a href="/DukeDivinity/">Duke Divinity School</a>.

📆 May 8
⏰ 12:30-2 p.m.
📍 Chesterfield Building
đź”— Register: duke.is/9/6sgy
The Cook Center on Social Equity (@dukesocialeq) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New research in JASN (ASN Publications) from our health equity team and collaborators, led by Keisha Bentley-Edwards, that underscores the importance of addressing structural racism and its effects in order to reduce kidney health disparities: journals.lww.com/jasn/fulltext/…

New research in JASN (<a href="/asnpublications/">ASN Publications</a>) from our health equity team and collaborators, led by
<a href="/Keisha_Bentley/">Keisha Bentley-Edwards</a>, that underscores the importance of addressing structural racism and its effects in order to reduce kidney health disparities: journals.lww.com/jasn/fulltext/…
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Structural racism is at the root of the care and progression disparities for chronic kidney disease. This paper is the foundation for lifesaving interventions that have been #Terminated #CantStopWontStop #KeepFighting

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5 years after George Floyd’s murder: How the media narrative has changed around the killing and the protests that followed theconversation.com/5-years-after-…

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Mass media often perpetuate the trope of the “strong Black woman,” someone who perseveres through cycles of hardship and struggle. But new research by Dr. Keisha Bentley-Edwards is showing that celebrating the resiliency of Black women and girls has a cost. globalhealth.duke.edu/news/problem-b…

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🚨 New Book 🚨 Stratification Economics and Disability Justice by Cook Center faculty Adam Hollowell and Keisha Bentley-Edwards explores how the work of Black disabled activists can and should inform economic analysis of inequality in the U.S. bit.ly/SEDJ2025

🚨 New Book 🚨 
Stratification Economics and Disability Justice by Cook Center faculty <a href="/aehollowell/">Adam Hollowell</a> and <a href="/Keisha_Bentley/">Keisha Bentley-Edwards</a> 
explores how the work of Black disabled activists can and should inform economic analysis of inequality in the U.S.
bit.ly/SEDJ2025
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Presenting evidence of disability-based inequality from economics, sociology, and other fields, the authors argue for the inclusion of ableism alongside racism and misogyny in stratification economics' analysis of intergroup disparity. Via Cambridge University Press: bit.ly/SEDJ2025