News & Announcements

Spring 2024 Exhibition

Curated by Paula Damasceno, a visual artist, curator, and educator born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and based in Greensboro, NC, “Initiations” presents the works of six artists who engage with multiple photographic formats: video, film, music, writing, printmaking, and space-making.

About the exhibit.

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

August 5, 2025

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

December 16, 2024

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)

September 30, 2024

The Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film, hosted annually at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and…

Image of artwork, Blue Man in the Sea 2 by Toni Scott

Gallery Exhibit: “If We Must Die…We’ll Fight to the End: Resistance and Revolt Aboard the Slave Ship”

January 16, 2023

During the spring term 2023, the Stone Center will explore the phenomenon of physical resistance by African captives caught up…

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…

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…