Book Talk by Dr. Nicole Swiner, Physician and International Best-selling Author – A Healthy Kidney: A Comprehensive Guide to Manage Hypertension, Control Stress, and Prevent Renal Failure, Kidney Disease, and More
Nicole Swiner, MD also known as the public figure, “DocSwiner”, presents her latest book, A Healthy Kidney: A Comprehensive Guide…
Communiversity Awarded Burroughs Wellcome Fund Student STEM Enrichment Program Grant
The Stone Center’s Communiversity Youth Program (CYP) has been awarded a $180,000 Burroughs Wellcome Fund (BWF) Student STEM Enrichment Program…
Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film (2024)
The Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film, hosted annually at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and…
Gallery Exhibit: “If We Must Die…We’ll Fight to the End: Resistance and Revolt Aboard the Slave Ship”
During the spring term 2023, the Stone Center will explore the phenomenon of physical resistance by African captives caught up…
Tamara Lanier to Deliver the 2022 Stone Memorial Lecture
The 2022 Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Lecture will feature a presentation by Tamara Lanier, the great-great-great granddaughter of ‘Papa Renty’, whose image, as well as being an important record of the life of an enslaved individual, is also the subject of one of the most important legal contests over the rights of the descendants of the enslaved in the United States. Ms. Lanier, after confirming missing elements of her family’s history, was able to establish her kinship to her ancestors, and begin the difficult struggle to reclaim their identities and dignity. The Stone Lecture will take place on Thursday, October 27th, at 7:00 p.m. at the Stone Center. In 2019, Tamara Lanier filed a lawsuit in Massachusetts for the right to seek redress from Harvard University for emotional distress over a series of photos depicting her enslaved ancestors, Renty Taylor and…
UNC Prepares for the University-Wide Celebration of the Inaugural Dr. Genna Rae Mcneil Endowed Black History Month Lecture
Noted scholar, historian, and filmmaker Dr. Vincent Brown will deliver the inaugural Dr. Genna Rae McNeil Endowed Black History Month…
Gallery Exhibit Speaker Series: “If We Must Die…We’ll Fight to the End: Resistance and Revolt Aboard the Slave Ship”
The spring 2023 exhibition occurs simultaneously with a companion speaker series that features leading scholars whose work addresses some aspect…
The Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film (Fall 2022)
Since its inception in its current format in 2004, the annual Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film at the Stone Center has been spotlighting films from all corners of the African diaspora. Many screenings are North Carolina premieres and are followed by in-depth post-screening discussions featuring commentary, insights and contextualization by filmmakers and scholars.
Tamara Lanier to Deliver the 2022 Stone Memorial Lecture
The 2022 Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Lecture will feature a presentation by Tamara Lanier, the great-great-great granddaughter of ‘Papa Renty’,…
The Stone Center Writer’s Discussion Series
Hawaiʻi Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian…
Mixed Media Artist Anike Robinson Brings ‘Gris Gris Gurlz’ to Brown Gallery and Museum
Mixed media artist Anike Robinson will bring her imaginative Gri Gris Gurlz exhibition to the Stone Center’s Robert and Sallie…