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Stone Center to reflect on significance of 1968-69
The global significance of 1968 and 1969 will be a topic of reflection during the 2008-2009 academic year at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History.
Fall programs will begin Sept. 11 with “The Time is Nigh: Organize, Mobilize, Radicalize,” a panel discussion with 1968 Olympian Tommie Smith. Smith is one of the Olympic athletes who participated in the black-gloved fist gesture at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City – a visible challenge to racism and injustice happening in the U.S and the world at the time.
The center welcomes the public to post their most vivid memories of 1968 at www.chapelhill.MyNC.com, or to email them to the center, stonecenter@unc.edu , for posting. Pictures, videos and comments all are welcome.
On Sept. 18, the center’s bi-annual Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent Film will open with the screening of three films. The festival theme, “Post-Racial Nation? Or Permanence of a Racial State,” highlights contemporary and historical assumptions, beliefs and traditions regarding race, skin color and cultural identity.
Events will be in the center, at 150 South Road west of the Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower, and free to the public. Spanish translation is available upon request. Call 962-9001 for more information.