News Releases
Media Contact:
Olympia Friday
Public Relations Officer
(919) 962-7265
News Releases:
2009
Tissue becomes art in Freelon exhibit - Jan. 8
2008
Stone Center to reflect on significance of 1968-69 - Aug. 15
Stone Center programs to feature art, films, more - Jan. 7
2007
Stone Center awarded NEA grant for community reading program - Nov. 20
Stone Center exhibit to trace life of Paul Robeson - Sept. 25
Stone Center to explore black identities in fall programming - Aug. 30
Exhibit, panel to trace connections between Black Panthers, Young Lords - Jan. 19
Former Black Panthers, Young Lords to speak about their connected histories - Jan. 19
2006
Poets, scholars, artists, others to speak at UNC’s Stone Center this semester - Jan. 10
Film animator to visit Stone Center, speak to public Thursday (March 9) - Mar. 1
Quilts, films, lectures, more on tap this fall at Stone Center - Aug. 29
Hudson, first black female mayor of Greenville, Miss., to speak Nov. 9 - Oct. 27
Stone Center's spring semester programs to look at poems, painting, protests, more - Dec. 21
2005
Stone Center will host performance to benefit Our Children’s Place - Mar. 18
Two sophomores, one senior receive awards to study abroad - May 27
Stone Center announces fall season; includes art, film, dialogue on culture - Aug. 17
Activist Malika Sanders to deliver Stone Memorial Lecture on Nov. 8 - Oct. 27
2004
Stone Center to screen documentary about historic Greensboro sit-in - Jan. 24
Stone Center film festival at UNC to probe corners of black diaspora - Feb. 3
Feb. 26 panel to explore role of Black Panthers, self-defense groups in civil rights movement - Feb. 19
International human rights advocate McDougall to give 2004 Stone lecture - Mar. 10
Stone Center artist-in-residence will discuss Afro-Puerto Rican influences on his poetry - March 31
Stone Center for Black Culture and History to open after years of effort, fund raising - July 28
New Stone Center launches year of concerts, lectures, more - Aug. 16
Prized collection of African-American art to open programming at new Stone Center - Aug. 16
Candlelight march, song, inspirationto mark Stone Center’s milestone - Aug.19
Jazz singer Nnenna Freelon to perform at Stone Center - Sept. 30
Coach ‘Big House’ Gaines to sign books at UNC - Oct. 22
Stone Center to sponsor festival of black, independent film; first film is Monday (Nov. 1) - Oct. 29
Sonja Haynes Stone’s daughter to deliver memorial lecture Tuesday - Nov. 5
Stone Center prepares for spring 2005 season of music, literature, art - Dec. 1