Past Events

Writers Discussion Series: On April 10th at 3:30PM Shannon Eaves, assistant professor of history at the College of Charleston, discusses her work: Sexual Violence and American Slavery – The Making of Rape Culture in the Antebellum South

Join us on the 2025 African Diaspora Lecture with Dr. Arturo Lindsay, artist, filmmaker, professor on February 25th at 6:30pm in the Hitchcock Multipurpose Room. Prof. Lindsay will take about Congo Art, Aesthetics and the Visual Culture of Taller Portobelo (in the coast of the Republic of Panama).

Join us in the Stone Center Auditorium on February 20th at 7:00pm for the 2025 McNeil African American History Month Lecture. Dr. Claudrena  N. Harold, Prof. of History, U. of Virginia, will deliver the 2025 McNeil African American History Month Lecture on February 20th at 7pm.  The title of Pro. Herold's lecture is:  Truth Is on the Way: Gospel Music, Black Liberation, and the Politics of Freedom in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras. 

Patricia Timmons-Goodson, Dean and Chief Academic Officer of North Carolina Central University School of Law, will deliver the annual Stone Memorial Lecture at the Stone Center. This event will take place on Tuesday, November 12th at 6:00PM.

  Join us for a special pop up event presented by Vote to Live featuring special guests Michael Ealy, NC Attorney James Quander, and Stefanie Brown

Join the UNC Stone Center's Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film, in Collaboration with Provident1898, for a free community screening of two Durham-made films by Blackwomen filmmakers, J'Sha Gift and Angela Hollowell.

Join the UNC Black Alumni Reunion (BAR) in collaboration with the Stone Center, for the screening of: A Time to Yell - More Than A Statue! Q&A with the filmmakers to follow. October 3, 7:00PM. Hitchcock Room.

The 2024 Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film opens on September 26, at 6:00PM at the Varsity Theater, 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill. This year’s festival opens with the North Carolina premiere of two captivating entries. The first consists of a documentary: “ARTE CONGO…ARTISTS JOURNEY ON THE CONGO COAST OF PANAMÁ,” written, produced, directed and narrated by Atlanta-based veteran artist, scholar and filmmaker Dr. Arturo Lindsay. The second screening of the evening consists of a short feature, SACRED AXA -- written, produced, and directed by LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant – which recounts the story of an island that harbors sacred possibilities.