Stone Center Media Coverage
For media inquiries, contact Neha Chhabra, the Public Communications Specialist for the Stone Center at 919-962-9001. Click the links below for the Stone Center’s most recent media coverage.
Fall 2025
BPSS Scholar Tobi Onasanya honored for service to campus and community - Carolina Center For Public Service
Jazz artist Nnenna Freelon reads debut memoir on grief at Stone Center - Daily Tar Heel
Pulitzer Prize winner to deliver Stone Lecture - The Well
MURAP mentors future graduate students - The Well
Stone Center Debuts The Book of Mark Exhibit - Carolina Alumni Review
The Fall 2025 edition of Milestones magazine goes live!
Summer 2025
Tar Heels team up on the radio - The Well
Spring 2025
Sonja Haynes Stone's Legacy Lives on at the Stone Center - The Well
Communiversity builds bonds with area youth - The Well
The Spring 2025 edition of Milestones magazine goes live!
Fall 2024
Premiere of the Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film takes audiences on an international journey - Daily Tar Heel
Stone Center's past remains relevant today - Daily Tar Heel
Fall 2023
Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film celebrates diverse filmmakers - Daily Tar Heel
Stone Memorial Lecture shares 'forgotten' voices of history - Daily Tar Heel
Spring 2023
Community reflects on Joseph Jordan's time as director of Sonja Haynes Stone Center - Daily Tar Heel
Stone Center releases spring exhibit, focuses on slavery and the past - Daily Tar Heel
LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant joins UNC as the new Stone Center director - Daily Tar Heel
Black History Month lecture endowed by University, named after Genna Rae McNeil - Daily Tar Heel
Close to heart': Stone Center hosts first community book walk - Daily Tar Heel
Fall 2022
Anike Robinson brings her exhibit 'Gris Gris Gurlz' to the Stone Center - Daily Tar Heel
Stone Center hosts film festival, first showing highlights environmental racism in NC - Daily Tar Heel
Keeping our story alive.’ New Chapel Hill film festival honors the Black experience - News & Observer
Fall 2021
Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution': Stone Center book talk on experiences of Cabo Verdean women - Daily Tar Heel
Former Mayor Howard Lee speaks on public service at UNC Stone Center - Daily Tar Heel
Professor Emeritus Genna Rae McNeil gives 29th annual Stone Center lecture - Daily Tar Heel
Spring 2020
African American Heritage Month Lecture celebrates the life of Coretta Scott King - Daily Tar Heel
Stone Center to offer virtual book talks to comply with social distancing precautions - Daily Tar Heel
This is an unfinished world': Charles E. Cobb speaks about Black activism at lecture - Daily Tar Heel
Stone Center Writer’s Discussion Series highlights innovative research - Daily Tar Heel
Fall 2019
Stone Center exhibit aims to reframe Black existence - Daily Tar Heel
1619 Collective Memory(ies) Symposium projects the past into the present and future - Daily Tar Heel
‘Like someone I know.’ Chapel Hill art show marks arrival of first enslaved Africans - News & Observer
Spring 2019
Stone Center to host 15th annual "He Was a Song, He Was a Poem" for MLK Day - Daily Tar Heel
Race, sexuality and the South intersect in Stone Center's Writer's Discussion Series - Daily Tar Heel
TaKeia N. Anthony explores the African diaspora in Writer's Discussion series - Daily Tar Heel
Discussion on Black-owned bookstores to be held at Sonja Haynes Stone Center - Daily Tar Heel
UNC Grad, Author Performs Reading at Stone Center – Chapelboro
Fall 2018
Stone Center kicks off its 30th anniversary by celebrating art from African Diaspora - Daily Tar Heel
Stone Center film festival celebrates new aspects of the African diaspora - Daily Tar Heel
Sonja Haynes Stone Center celebrates 30th anniversary at UNC - Daily Tar Heel
Hometown Hero: Joseph Jordan - Chapelboro
Spring 2018
UNC community to honor Martin Luther King Jr. with song, dance and poetry - Daily Tar Heel
Spirits tell their story through Toni Scott exhibit in the Stone Center - Daily Tar Heel
Exoneree kicks off speaker series on the death penalty, race, and innocence - Daily Tar Heel
"Why Black Lives Do Not Matter:" African-American History Month Lecture on roots of oppression - Daily Tar Heel
Are you smarter than a 17th-century Caribbean person? - Daily Tar Heel
Fall 2017
Haitian author Edwidge Danticat calls for togetherness - Daily Tar Heel
Edwidge Danticat, Interviewed on WUNC’s State of Things The State of Things
Art exhibition encourages representation of women of color in painting - Daily Tar Heel
Spring 2017
A New One-Man Show Resurrects Stokely Carmichael - WUNC
A Revolution Within A Revolution - WUNC
Fall 2016
Art exhibits at Triangle museums and galleries - Raleigh News & Observer
Film series in the Triangle - Raleigh News & Observer
Stone Center opens new innovation lab to honor UNC graduate - Daily Tar Heel
Stone Center opens new Curtis Sutton Innovation Laboratory on April 22 - UNC News
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Spring 2016
Documentary shines light on anti-terrorism efforts - Daily Tar Heel
New Stone Center exhibit explores black history through figurative visions - Daily Tar Heel
Fact Meets Fiction In 'La Sombra y el Espiritu IV' - WUNC
Fall 2015
Stone Center learns from legacy of activist - Daily Tar Heel