2021 Diaspora Lecture
Joe W. Trotter, Jr. will deliver the 2021 Diaspora Lecture and discuss his latest publication Workers on Arrival: Black Labor and the Making of America. From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the Black working class stands at the center of perceptions of […]
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 6:30pm EST via Zoom. Cobb is a founding member of the National Association of Black Journalists. As a field secretary with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), he originated the idea of […]
2021 Writer’s Discussion Series: Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vasquez
This event will be presented via Zoom teleconference. Please RSVP here to receive the Zoom link. Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba offer […]
2021 Author’s Discussion Series: Ricardo A. Wilson II
This event will be presented via Zoom teleconference. Please RSVP here to receive the Zoom link. The Nigrescent Beyond: Mexico, the United States, and the Psychic Vanishing of Blackness Despite New Spain’s significant participation in the early transatlantic slave trade, the collective imagination of the Mexican nation evolved in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to […]
Roundtable Discussion: Conceptualizations of Race, Blackness, and Identity in North Africa
Join the UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies and the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies on April 19 at 3:30 p.m. EST for an important conversation on Conceptualizations of Race, Blackness, and Identity in North Africa. While there are rich cultural and historical connections between North and sub-Saharan Africa, complex divisions exist […]
Exhibition Opening: 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 Fall 2022.
2022 Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film Kickoff
Varsity Theatre 123 E. Franklin St., Chapel Hill, NCDiaspora Film Festival Kickoff: UNC-Chapel Alum, Resita Cox’s Acclaimed Documentary, FREEDOM HILL, Spotlights the Oldest Town Tncorporated by Freed, Formerly Enslaved People in the United States. Thursday, September 29, 6:00PM at the Varsity Theater , 123 E Franklin Street, Chapel Hill
Stone Center Writer’s Discussion Series – Hawai′i Is My Haven – Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific by Nitasha Tamar Sharma
Stone Center Writer's Discussion Series - Hawai′i Is My Haven - Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific by Nitasha Tamar Sharma -- November 10, 3:30-5:00p | Virtual Event (via Zoom Webinar)
February 2, 6:00pm | Exhibit Opening: “If We Must Die…We’ll Fight to the End: Resistance and Revolt Aboard the Slave Ship”
Exhibit Opening: “If We Must Die…We’ll Fight to the End: Resistance and Revolt Aboard the Slave Ship”
Talk by Historian and Distinguished Professor Marcus Redikar, University of Pittsburg
February 22, 6:30PM | The Inaugural Dr. Genna Rae McNeil Black History Month Lecture | Stone Center Auditorium | with Prof. Vincent Brown (Harvard)
The inaugural Dr. Genna Rae McNeil Endowed Black History Month lecture will take place on 22 February at 6:30 pm in the Stone Center Auditorium with guest speaker Dr. Vincent Brown
March 8 @6:00pm | Hitchcock Room | with Prof. Sowande Mustakeem, Washington University, Author of Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
Stone Center Spring Exhibit Speaker Series | March 8 @6:00pm | Hitchcock Room | with Prof. Sowande Mustakeem, Washington University, Author of Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage