The Centennial event celebrated remarkable trailblazers including Dr. Joanne Wilson, a leading advocate for health and climate change; Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook, the first Black faculty member, honored through the Samuel DuBois Cook Society and Center on Social Equity; and Claudius "CB" Claiborne, Duke's inaugural Black basketball player, inspiring resilience and now a distinguished professor at Texas Southern University since 1969. Read more about their works here:
Dr. Joanne Wilson: https://blackthinktank.duke.edu/news/dr-joanne-wilson-still-blazing-tra…
Dr. Samuel DuBois Cook: https://blackthinktank.duke.edu/news/dr-samuel-dubois-cook-and-his-visi…
Claudius "CB" Claiborne: https://blackthinktank.duke.edu/news/dr-claudius-cb-clairborne-receives…