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 History on the campus of...
1988 – Black Cultural Center Founded
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.
In Conversation with Howard N Lee, U.S. Army Veteran, Social Worker, Public Servant & Educator
Please join us on October 19, at 12 noon for a discussion with former Chapel Hill mayor, Howard N. Lee, on a lifetime of public...
The Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film (Fall 2021)
The Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film is the Stone Center's annual series spotlighting films from all corners of the African diaspora. Many of the screenings...
The Stone Center’s Writers’ Discussion Series — Terza Lima-Neves
Title: Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution -- Kriolas Poderozas; EDITED BY TERZA A. SILVA LIMA-NEVES AND AMINAH N. PILGRIM Terza A. Silva...
Genna Rae McNeil to Deliver the Stone Center’s Annual Dr Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Lecture
Genna Rae McNeil, Professor Emerita of History at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and a scholar of African-American and U.S. Constitutional history,...
Author Discussion Series: Marisa J. Fuentes
Author Discussion Series: Marisa J. Fuentes | Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive (Penn Press, 2016) Winner of the 2016 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize...