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...
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 in the grip of European...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...