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Bass Connections project, Reproductive Care Post-Roe, featured on multiple podcasts

Reproductive Care Post-Roe, co-led by DHRC Advisory Board member Dr. Wesley Hogan, was featured recently on the popular WUNC podcast, Due South. The story focusing on this Bass Connections project starts here at the 33:00 minute mark.

The project is also the subject of the podcast Outlawed.

The project uses ethnographic methods, including gathering and organizing archival research, documenting media coverage, and conducting oral history interviews, to expand the audio and documentary archive launched in 2024 chronicling the work of the Duke Family Planning team and their colleagues across the country, with a particular focus on the Southeast.

"Her Fight, His Name: The Story of Gwen Carr and Eric Garner"

2026 winner of the Rubenstein Library Human Rights Digital Storytelling Award

The 2026 Human Rights Digital Storytelling Award, presented by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, has been awarded to Her Fight, His Name: The Story of Gwen Carr and Eric Garner, directed by Brad Bailey in association with Gwen Carr and the Mothers of the Movement.

The Rubenstein Library will be inviting Brad Bailey to Duke and Durham for a community screening and conversation of the film in fall semester 2026. Exact date and location will be announced later this year. Read more here ->

Op-ed: Faculty oversight is a necessity for AI at Duke

Robin Kirk, Human Rights Certificate Director @ Duke Human Rights Center

This academic year, Duke did not just experiment with artificial intelligence in the classroom. The University institutionalized OpenAI’s ChatGPT without consulting faculty. In June 2025, Duke signed a contract providing ChatGPT free to all students, staff, and faculty. This went beyond prior partnerships with Microsoft’s Copilot and Azure. After all, for tech companies, universities like Duke are a coveted revenue stream.

The University described the decision as a matter of equity, to make AI available to all. At the bottom of every ChatGPT session, a line of text reads that OpenAI does not use information provided by Duke users to train the model. In addition, Duke sponsors AI training and events, including debates on risks.

That’s laudable. But it does not change the fact that the fundamental first step is missing. Keep reading ->