Category: Lecture

Black and white headshot photo of Vincent Brown

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 lecture.   With the support...

Black and white rendering of African captives fight against an 18th-century slave ship crew.

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 of the special world and...

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...

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,...

Charlie Cobb to deliver the 2021 African American History Month Lecture

Distinguished journalist, educator and activist Charles E. Cobb will deliver the 2021 African American History Month Lecture on Tuesday, February 23 at 6:30 pm via...

Joe Trotter to deliver the 2021 Diaspora Lecture

Joe W. Trotter, Jr. will deliver the 2021 Diaspora Lecture on Thursday, February 4 at 3:30 pm EST via Zoom. He will discuss his latest...

The 1619 Collective Memory(ies) Project

[caption id="attachment_1743" align="alignright" width="201"] "The Visit", Michael Platt Pigment Print on Paper, 22 x 28 inches, 2014[/caption] This fall, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for...

Stone Center to commemorate Frederick Douglass bicentennial

The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History will host Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. a direct descendant of Frederick Douglass, on Monday, April...

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...