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