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VICTOR MACK RECEIVES NATIONAL GRANT TO SUPPORT NUTRITIONAL LITERACY PROJECT

August 17, 2022

Victor Mack, director of the Cato College of Education Office of Educational Outreach, received a 2022 Phi Kappa Phi Literacy...

Mental Wellness Event with Deona Frierson

May 5, 2022

Mental Wellness luncheon with Deona Frierson.

Annual Diversity Reception

October 15, 2021

The African and African American Faculty/Staff Caucus will be hosting the Annual Diversity Reception November 8, 2021. The reception will be held at the Hauser Alumni Pavilion, 8931 Cameron Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28262. Please RSVP by November 1,...

Byron White recognized as one of Pride Magazine's Best of the Best for 2021

May 9, 2021

Associate provost of Urban Research and Community Engagement, Byron White is recognized as one of Pride Magazine's Best of the Best for 2021.

University Remembers Lasting Legacy Of Mary Harper

October 6, 2020

Mary T. Harper, Ph.D., who played an important role in mentoring and teaching students at UNC Charlotte, developing African American studies at the University and in preserving the African American story in the Charlotte community, died on Oct. 1, 2020.

GOVERNOR APPOINTS SOCIAL WORK PROFESSOR TO STATEWIDE TASK FORC

July 16, 2020

Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed UNC Charlotte social work professor Sonyia Richardson, Ph.D., to a statewide task force on health inequities. The move comes as part of an ...

Black Silence is my Weapon…Allow Me to Push!

By Dr. Sonyia Richardson
June 6, 2020

In the midst of a pandemic resulting in disparate rates of death among Black and Brown people, African Americans are also dealing with the hefty weight of racism, murder by cops, and Amy Coopers of the world.

Chancellor's Statement On George Floyd

May 30, 2020

Like so many of you and others around the nation, I was heartbroken by George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis on Monday night and the horrifying video of his final moments. The recent killings of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery are further examples of the systemic racial injustice that continues to plague our country.

On Behalf of My Sisters: A Self-Help Curriculum for White Women

By Dr. Janaka Lewis
May 30, 2020

Note: No one Black person can speak for all, but over the course of this week and the last three months, several years, decades, and centuries of constant death in the name of racist systems, institutions, and people, many of us have received numerous reachouts from friends in sympathy and asking how you might support.

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Dr. Sonyia Richardson - CHHS School of Social Work promoted
April 30, 2020

The African and African-American Faculty / Staff Caucus

VICTOR MACK RECEIVES NATIONAL GRANT TO SUPPORT NUTRITIONAL LITERACY PROJECT