Past Events

Join us on Aug. 16 at 6:00PM in the Hitchcock as Prof. Daniel Widener (UC San Diego) for the 2024 Diaspora Lecture entitled: "Continent to Continent: Global/Local Iterations of the Anti-Apartheid Struggle". Prof. Widener is a professor of history at UC San Diego and director of the UC San Diego Institute of Arts and Humanities. His most recent book is: Third Worlds Within: Multi-ethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity (2024).

Join us on Thursday February 22, 2024, at 7:00PM in the Stone Center Auditorium, when Dr. Keisha Blain, a New York Times Best-Selling Author & Award-Winning Historian from Brown University, delivers the 2024 McNeil African American History Month Lecture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Join Us on February 8th, at 3:30PM at the Bull's Head Bookshop Lounge as Prof. Louis A. Pérez Jr.'s discusses his most recent book, "Colonial Reckoning" which explores Cuba's nineteenth-century wars for independence, with a focus on Cubans loyal to Spain. Prof. Pérez is the J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, specializing in modern Latin America, the Caribbean, and Cuba.

Erica R. Edwards, Professor of African American Studies and English at Yale University, will deliver the 2023 edition of the Stone Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, November 14th at 6:30PM in the Stone Center Auditorium.

Title: Black Folk - The Roots of the Black Working Class by Blair LM Kelley

The Sonja Haynes Stone Center proudly welcomes We Happen To Be, Just Being, Love Expressions to the Robert and Sallie Brown Gallery as its featured exhibition for Fall 2023. A collaborative endeavor with the UNC American Indian Center, it showcases works by artists of Native and Black ancestry whose art deal with the shared histories and intertwined struggles of Black and Indigenous communities.

The Brown Gallery and Museum at the Stone Center hosts an exhibition this fall (October -- December 2023) featuring works by artists of Native and Black ancestry whose art deal with the shared histories and intertwined struggles of Black and Indigenous communities.

The Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film Screenings on: October 3, 5, 10, 17, 24, 26 starting (at 6:00pm) and a lunch-time screening on November 2 @12:05pm!