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. 

Spring 2026

The Spring 2026 edition of Milestones magazine goes live!

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