In the Media

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

The Life And Legacy Of Amiri Baraka - WUNC