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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...

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 Islands. This ethnography emerges from...

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 Brown Gallery and Museum during...

The 2022 Diaspora Film Festival Kickoff Features UNC-Chapel Hill Alum, Resita Cox’s Acclaimed Documentary

The film FREEDOM HILL spotlights the oldest town incorporated by freed, formerly enslaved people in the United States. Not long after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill...

Headshot photo of Howard Lee wearing a suit and blue tie

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

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...

14th Annual African American History Month Lecture

Dr. Gerald Horne will deliver the fourteenth annual UNC at Chapel Hill African American History Month Lecture on Wednesday, the 21st of February, at 7...