Stone Center Media Coverage
For media inquiries, contact LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant Stone Center Director at 919-962-9001. Click the links below for the Stone Center’s most recent media coverage.
Fall 2024
Premiere of the Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film takes audiences on an international journey - The Daily Tarheel
Stone Center's past remains relevant today - The Daily Tarheel
Fall 2023
Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film celebrates diverse filmmakers - The Daily Tarheel
Stone Memorial Lecture shares 'forgotten' voices of history - The Daily Tarheel
Spring 2023
Community reflects on Joseph Jordan's time as director of Sonja Haynes Stone Center - The Daily Tarheel
Stone Center releases spring exhibit, focuses on slavery and the past - The Daily Tarheel
LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant joins UNC as the new Stone Center director - The Daily Tarheel
Black History Month lecture endowed by University, named after Genna Rae McNeil - The Daily Tarheel
Close to heart': Stone Center hosts first community book walk - The Daily Tarheel
Fall 2022
Anike Robinson brings her exhibit 'Gris Gris Gurlz' to the Stone Center - The Daily Tarheel
Stone Center hosts film festival, first showing highlights environmental racism in NC - The Daily Tarheel
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 - The Daily Tarheel
Former Mayor Howard Lee speaks on public service at UNC Stone Center - The Daily Tarheel
Professor Emeritus Genna Rae McNeil gives 29th annual Stone Center lecture - The Daily Tarheel
Spring 2020
African American Heritage Month Lecture celebrates the life of Coretta Scott King - The Daily Tarheel
Stone Center to offer virtual book talks to comply with social distancing precautions - The Daily Tarheel
This is an unfinished world': Charles E. Cobb speaks about Black activism at lecture - The Daily Tarheel
Stone Center Writer’s Discussion Series highlights innovative research - The Daily Tarheel
Fall 2019
Stone Center exhibit aims to reframe Black existence - The Daily Tarheel
1619 Collective Memory(ies) Symposium projects the past into the present and future - The Daily Tarheel
‘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 - The Daily Tarheel
Race, sexuality and the South intersect in Stone Center's Writer's Discussion Series - The Daily Tarheel
TaKeia N. Anthony explores the African diaspora in Writer's Discussion series - The Daily Tarheel
Discussion on Black-owned bookstores to be held at Sonja Haynes Stone Center - The Daily Tarheel
UNC Grad, Author Performs Reading at Stone Center – Chapelboro
Fall 2018
Stone Center kicks off its 30th anniversary by celebrating art from African Diaspora - The Daily Tarheel
Stone Center film festival celebrates new aspects of the African diaspora - The Daily Tarheel
Sonja Haynes Stone Center celebrates 30th anniversary at UNC - The Daily Tarheel
Hometown Hero: Joseph Jordan - Chapelboro
Spring 2018
UNC community to honor Martin Luther King Jr. with song, dance and poetry - The Daily Tarheel
Spirits tell their story through Toni Scott exhibit in the Stone Center - The Daily Tarheel
Exoneree kicks off speaker series on the death penalty, race, and innocence - The Daily Tarheel
"Why Black Lives Do Not Matter:" African-American History Month Lecture on roots of oppression - The Daily Tarheel
Are you smarter than a 17th-century Caribbean person? - The Daily Tarheel
Fall 2017
Haitian author Edwidge Danticat calls for togetherness - The Daily Tarheel
Edwidge Danticat, Interviewed on WUNC’s State of Things The State of Things
Art exhibition encourages representation of women of color in painting - The Daily Tarheel
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 - The Daily Tarheel
Stone Center opens new Curtis Sutton Innovation Laboratory on April 22 - UNC News
Exhibitions | Autograph in Hackney, London | Free
Spring 2016
Documentary shines light on anti-terrorism efforts - The Daily Tarheel
New Stone Center exhibit explores black history through figurative visions - The Daily Tarheel
Fact Meets Fiction In 'La Sombra y el Espiritu IV' - WUNC
Fall 2015
Stone Center learns from legacy of activist - The Daily Tarheel