‘Strange Fruit’ is the first documentary exploring the history and legacy of the Billie Holiday classic. The song’s evolution tells a dramatic story of America’s radical past using one of the most influential protest songs ever written as its epicenter. … Read more
'Strange Fruit' is the first documentary exploring the history and legacy of the Billie Holiday classic. The song's evolution tells a dramatic story of America's radical past using one of the most influential protest songs ever written as its epicenter. … Read more
Recent scholarship has rediscovered the pioneering role of Black bookstores, an often-overlooked element in the story of Black community development and Black empowerment in the U.S. The Stone Center’s 2019 African Diaspora Lecture and Roundtable brings together former and current … Read more
In ‘Slavery and Class in the American South: A Generation of Slave Narrative Testimony, 1840–1865,’ William L. Andrews studies an entire generation of slave narrators. More than 60 mid–19th century narratives reveal how work, family, skills and connections made for social … Read more
In ‘African Kings and Black Slaves,’ Herman L. Bennett mines the historical archives of Europe and Africa to reinterpret the first century of sustained African–European interaction. These encounters were not simple economic transactions. Rather, according to Bennett, they involved clashing … Read more
This fall, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History will host a solo exhibition entitled DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance. This show, on loan from the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston, features the work … Read more
Join the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for the opening of DO or DIE: Affect, Ritual, Resistance. This multimedia exhibition by award-winning artist Fahamu Pecou seeks to elevate and recontextualize Black life and death by reframing our view. Pecou integrates West African spiritual traditions … Read more
Head to the Stone Center as we celebrate the release of Ruta Panoramica by Latin jazz ensemble Marimjazzia. The group, formed by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill associate professor of music Juan Alamo, combines Afro-Caribbean rhythms, particularly those from Puerto … Read more
Join the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History on Monday, November 11 as they host the 1619 Collective Memory(ies) Symposium. This one-day symposium will bring together “conversants” from communities thrown together as a result of the Transatlantic … Read more
As part of the Writer's Discussion Series, the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History will host Benjamin Talton, professor of African history at Temple University. His research, writing, and teaching focus on politics and culture in modern Africa … Read more
