Submissions from news.umich.edu

• Negative news coverage empowers collective action in minorities. Minorities who perceive their racial ethnic group as inaccurately represented in mainstream media are more likely to work together in order to improve their group's position and status in the larger society

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  Published 20th Oct 2019
• Researchers have found that children with blood vitamin D levels suggestive of deficiency were almost twice as likely to develop externalizing behavior problems: aggressive and rule breaking behaviors, as reported by their parents, compared with children who had higher levels of the vitamin.

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  Published 21st Aug 2019
• Tearing down abandoned houses and buildings in Detroit’s most blight-stricken neighborhoods, in the name of public safety and quality of life, is associated with 11% drop in homicides and serious injuries caused by firearms in areas where demolitions took place, without an increase in nearby areas.

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  Published 13th Aug 2019