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Join us at our inaugural Violence Prevention is Public Health Annual Symposium at UNC Charlotte.

📅 April 9, 2026 | 12–5 PM
📍 UNC Charlotte Popp Martin Student Union Theatre
🔗 Register: bit.ly/VPisPH
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Niner Nation Gives Save The Date: March 31 - April 2, 2026

It's Niner Nation Gives Day! 💚 I'm asking you to support the @UNCCharlotte Violence Prevention Center — our work on human trafficking, sexual violence, suicide prevention & LGBTQ+ health reaches from NC to the U.K.

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#NinerNationGives #NinerNation

A proposed data center in Charlotte shows why the city should slow down | Opinion Residents, like my neighbors and me, deserve clear regulations and clarity on core issues with these facilities | Opinion

I’ve been discussing data centers in my class this term, but was still surprised to see a zoning petition to place one in my neighborhood. Regulations are needed to reduce the health & environmental consequences. Here is my op-ed in the Charlotte Observer:

www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/arti...

Went to Regal’s Monday Mystery Movie, which was Slanted. There was moment in the movie that evoked so much fragility that people walked out! 🤯 SMH 😒

In 25-Country Survey, Americans Especially Likely To View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad | Pew Research Center Across 25 countries, Americans are the most likely to see the morality and ethics of people in their country as somewhat or very bad.

53% of Americans surveyed described their fellow citizens' ethics & morality as bad. (92% of Canadians view their countrymen as good.)

At least we're not denying it, I guess. The first step in solving a problem...

Survey: www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

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I’ve Battled Racist Online Trolls For Years. AI Is A Whole Different Beast | Essence Shortly after Roe v. Wade was overturned in 2022, I notified my followers on Instagram that I was speaking to Yahoo! News about what such a monumental attack on reproductive […]

BIG ESSENCE. FIRST OP-ED. ALL ME. BIG MAMA. RUN IT UP.

www.essence.com/news/ai-raci...

Gathered all the way up.

At the Violence Prevention Center, we translate evidence into action—training professionals, informing policy, and developing research-driven programs. Your gift this #GivingTuesday fuels that mission.

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#EndViolence #CharlotteVPC #GivingTuesday

I’m never going to forget when “Watchmen” had that scene depicting the Tulsa Race Massacre and so many Black people online lamented that they were never taught that history.

It was by design. Oklahoma didn’t make it a part of school curriculum till 2020.

Whew that was heavy.

Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

US appeals court upholds hate crime convictions of 3 White men in 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery | CNN A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the hate crime convictions of three White men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed the runni...

A federal appeals court upheld the hate crime convictions of three White men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed the running Black man with a shotgun.

Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.

This is beyond damaging to public health. It’s by design of course but still devastating

STATEMENT : "Let us be clear: Donald Trump's approach to homelessness does nothing to address the sky-high cost of rent, which remains the main cause of homelessness. Instead, his reckless actions are cruel and backward and will force even more people to sleep outside”

The @successcollab.bsky.social was so delighted to have @drapryla.bsky.social come talk about her work within the realm of advocacy and public scholarship! We all were inspired and invigorated to do better and use our science to help the public!

It was so much fun! 🥳

I'm in Detroit. It's 25 degrees & dropping. I met a woman who has slept outside for 5 months. Yesterday, all of her belongings, incl her blankets, were thrown away. She has nowhere else to go.

It doesn't have to be like this. Housing + support solves homelessness. We need political will.

Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Our Center’s suicide prevention training postdoc ad is live! The DoD-funded position will work with Drs. Robert Cramer, Annelise Mennicke, and Jessamyn Moxie on a training e-learning platform in partnership with Dr. Justin Baker and the Ohio State U team!

jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/64918

We’re hiring a Department Chair for Public Health and Health Administration at UNC Charlotte. See the job listing here:

jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/64712

ICYMI: My conversation with THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR director Geeta Gandbhir.

Public perceptions of castle doctrine and stand your ground cases Introduction Stand your ground (SYG) and castle doctrine (CD) laws are presently growing throughout the United States. The present study aims to better understand public perceptions of SYG and CD ca...

For our first study (several more to come in the coming months), see here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

My research team began studying stand your ground laws and public perceptions after the murders of Ahmaud Arbery & Botham Jean. So I knew of Ajike Owen’s murder…however, I was still unprepared for The Perfect Neighbor. I’m glad this story was amplified but gutted at this tragedy.

If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree.

If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky

Our new paper out in American Psychologist.

Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp.

Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally

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Abortion restrictions may be fueling a rise in domestic violence, experts warn On average, a woman’s risk of being killed in the U.S. increases by 20% when pregnant or after giving birth. Pregnant and postpartum women are more likely to be killed than to die from childbirth-rela...

Good PBS News Hour piece tonight on how abortion restrictions compromise women's domestic safety.

In the US, a pregnant/postpartum woman's risk of being killed is 20% higher than that of other women; she is more likely die by murder than from childbirth-related issues.

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

There are so few academic jobs, and thousands of excellent scholars are all trying to move at the same time due to location. 

North Carolina needs evidence-driven solutions not retribution to reduce crime • NC Newsline We are all seeking solutions to deter and reduce crime in North Carolina. But bringing back the death penalty shifts the focus toward retribution rather than prevention of crime

Firing squads in 2025? 🤦🏾‍♀️

Latest op-ed published in NC Newsline. The death penalty is not a crime deterrent nor the answer for crime prevention.

ncnewsline.com/2025/10/08/n...