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Judy Richardson to Deliver Stone Memorial Lecture Oct. 30
Filmmaker Judy Richardson, an activist with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the civil rights movement, will speak on Oct. 30, 7 pm at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History on South Road. During the program, the center will unveil a new commemorative quilt that will be on permanent display in the center.
Richardson’s talk will be the 16th annual Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Lecture honoring the center’s namesake, the late UNC faculty member Sonja Haynes Stone.
She advocated for the center, directed the curriculum in African and Afro-American studies and was an adviser to the Black Student Movement in the late 1970s. Each year, the lecture is given by a black woman whose work, scholarship and service epitomize the spirit of Stone.
The center commissioned creation of the quilt, “In Remembrance, In Reverence, In Repsect,” by UNC associate professor of history Heather Williams. The quilt, 12 feet wide and 14 feet long, recognizes prominent blacks of UNC and of the Stone Center.
Richardson, a senior producer with Northern Light Productions in Boston, will discuss “Will the Circle be Unbroken: The Relevance of the Civil Rights Movement.” The talk will be part of the center’s reflection on the global significance of 1968-69.
A reception will follow the program.
Stone Center contact: Olympia Friday, (919) 962-7265