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Please Join us on Friday, April 20th at 6:30 pm as we commemorate 20 years of the Communiversity Youth Program at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center. The celebration will include musical performances, recognition of past and current Communiversity participants and a special address by State Superintendent June Atkinson. There will also be a presentation of [...]...
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The Stone Center's mission is to "encourage and support the critical examination of all dimensions of African-American, African and African diaspora cultures through sustained and open discussion, dialogue and debate..."
From February 9- April 30, 2011, The Robert and Sallie Brown Gallery and Museum will feature the work of Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier, in an exhibition entitled “Dry Run: Defining Determination, Testing Reconstruction.” In this latest work, Marshall-Linnemeier explores notions of experimentation, reconstruction and the idea of self-determination through the Penn Center papers and photographs held in [...]...
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Beginning on January 23, the Stone Center will host a 6-part Writer’s Discussion series featuring book readings and discussion with authors: Feb. 16, 3:30pm, Bull’s Head Bookshop: Katherine Charron (Associate Professor of History, North Carolina State University), “Freedom’s Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark” (UNC Press, 2012) Feb. 23, 2pm, Bull’s Head Bookshop: Kenneth Broun [...]...
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Stone Center News
Writer’s Discussion Series Wednesday, April 4 at 7pm with Dr. T.J. Desch-Obi, author of “Fighting for Honor: The History of African American Martial Art Traditions in the Atlantic World.”
Beginning on January 23, the Stone Center will host a 6-part Writer’s Discussion series featuring book readings and discussion with authors. [more]
Communiversity Celebrates 20 Year Anniversary, Friday, April 20th, 7pm!
On Friday, April 20, 2012 the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at UNC-Chapel Hill will commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Communiversity Youth Program. The celebration will include musical performances, recognition of past and current Communiversity participants and remarks from State Superintendent June Atkinson.
In honor of the Communiversity 20th anniversary, former UNC basketball player Brendan Haywood contributed $10,000 to the Stone Center program via the Brendan Haywood Single Parent’s Family Fund. This is Haywood’s first gift to UNC. [more]
Spring 2012 Milestones Newsletter Now Available!
Spring 2012 Milestones Newsletter is now available to download! Or you can pick up a hard copy at the Stone Center. [more]