The opening film, "Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart," is an independent documentary about award-winning playwright Lorraine Hansberry, known for her activism and for being the first Black woman to have a production on Broadway.
Fahamu Pecou's exhibit at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center explores Black resiliency through a combination of West African tradition and hip hop culture. The showcase coincides with the Stone Center's wider project addressing perspectives that surround 1619 and slavery in America.
Black-owned bookstores, which serve a vital function in Black communities, have declined as corporations like Amazon and Barnes and Noble are on the rise. This trend will be detailed during the “Black-Owned Bookstores: Their Struggle for Survival and Revival” event.
A lecture series is coming to UNC to talk about the lesser-known details of the African diaspora.
“It's a human being going to another place and coming back to tell you what they found, to tell you how they felt, to tell you things that no other creature or no other robotics could ever tell you."
“There's also something about bearing witness to the story with others that makes things really powerful. Having people share their stories is a way to give them a platform to speak their truth, to potentially shape public opinion about a population or minority group but also to humanize people in the eyes of those who might be bigoted.”
Award-winning historian and New York Times best-selling author Ibram X. Kendi gave a lecture on the history of racism in America at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center.
Feb. 1 marked the kickoff of Black History Month, and the Black Student Movement at UNC celebrated with a ceremony. BSM President Qieara Lesesne said she hopes campus events honoring African Americans "recenter our community and serve as a way to refocus on things that are positive."
Charles E. Williams, an artist based out of Greensboro, N.C., explores the family relationship, forgiveness and transformation in his exhibit.The exhibit is debuting just in time for Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the Stone Center.
The UNC Black Student Movement emerged in the fall of 1967, changing the path of UNC while giving a voice to Black students.
The Sonja Haynes Stone Center is celebrating its history of being a special spot on campus for Black inclusion, culture and conversation.
“We were dreamed here, for a reason. By people who had little reason to believe that dreams could come true."
The Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film is coming to Franklin Street to screen films that celebrate diversity. If you're a film buff, or even if you just want to see something off the big motion picture screens, check out the list of movies being shown.
The Stone Center’s new exhibition, “Aswarm With the Spirits of All Ages Here: Inconceivable Spaces of Slavery and Freedom,” opens Jan. 25 at 7 p.m.
John Lewis Brandon, a key challenger of racial segregation at UNC, died on Jan. 22, in Houston after complications from cancer. He was 80 years old. His death comes less than a month after the death of his classmate, LeRoy Frasier, who died on Dec. 29.
LeRoy Frasier, a Durham native who was one of the first black undergraduate students to attend UNC, died on Dec. 29, in New York City due to heart failure. He was 80 years old.
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