Nnenna Freelon encourages students to appreciate life at Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Lecture
“We were dreamed here, for a reason. By people who had little reason to believe that dreams could come true."
SONJA HAYNES STONE CENTER
Stone Center film festival celebrates new aspects of the African diaspora
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.
Spirits tell their story through Toni Scott exhibit in the Stone Center
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, one of the first African-American students at UNC, dies
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, one of the UNC's first African American undergraduates, dies
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.
