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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...

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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...

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,...

Genna Rae McNeil stands on a stage beside Colin A. Palmer during the 14th annual African-American History Month Lecture at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center at UNC-Chapel Hill

Genna Rae McNeil retires after 36 years at UNC

Genna Rae McNeil will retire this spring after a remarkable thirty-six-year career at UNC-Chapel Hill. McNeil is the first Black tenure-track faculty member in the...

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GiveUNC 2021

What difference can one day make?  GiveUNC is Tuesday, March 30. GiveUNC is Carolina's university-wide day of giving-a day when alumni, friends, faculty/staff and other...