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Handmade, History Infused Stone Center announces upcoming exhibit of African-American Quilts

ince its opening in August 2004, the by UNC Press in 2005, features one of Stone Center continues to build its her patchwork designs on its cover and Sreputation as a space for academic illustrates the conjoining of her academic pursuits, community engagement, and and artistic interests. In Williams’s cultural enrichment. The Robert and collection of quilts, each panel of the Sallie Brown Gallery and Museum, located exhibit contributes to a compelling on the ground floor of the Stone Center, narrative interpreting black life; stitched, has served as an elegant and inviting preserved, and evoked through material exhibition space for the visual arts hosting culture. The Hewitt Collection of African-American Inbetween Spaces: Textured Imaginings of Art, Letters from Home: The Art of Michael African-American Lives will be exhibited in Harris, and Fleeting Memory, Enduring the Robert and Sallie Brown Gallery and Legacy: The People of La Costa Chica, Museum from September 21–December Oaxaca, Mexico. From charcoal lithographs 6, 2006. and oil paintings to mixed installations In association with the exhibit, the and black & white photography; the Stone Center will host two reading and gallery and museum has served as a place discussion sessions on quilting in the for engaging various artistic expressions black experience. On September 28th, produced throughout the African the discussion will focus on Elsa Barkley Diaspora. With its upcoming exhibit, Brown’s essay, “African American Inbetween Spaces: Textured Imaginings of Women’s Quilting: A Framework for African-American Lives the Robert and Conceptualizing and Teaching African Sallie Brown Gallery will provide patrons American Women’s History” and on an opportunity to explore the place of the History Quilt by Heather Williams November 16th, Alice Walker’s short textile arts in African American history and story, Everyday Use. culture. Williams enlists vibrant colors and sensuous The center also will sponsor a quilting Inbetween Spaces: Textured Imaginings of textures to render imaginative, informed— workshop facilitated by Williams (date TBA). African-American Lives features twenty-one poignant, representations of the black experience The exhibit and programs are free and open quilts designed and handmade by Heather in the United States. The book Self Taught: to the public. All programs for Inbetween Spaces Andrea Williams, assistant professor of history African American Education in Slavery and will be held in the gallery. n at UNC-Chapel Hill. In her collection Dr. Freedom, authored by Williams and published

First African-American and Woman Mayor of Greenville, Mississippi to Deliver 2006 Stone Memorial Lecture Heather McTeer Hudson, first African- controversy, and tough times. Located in the Greenville civic American and woman to serve as mayor of Delta region of Mississippi, blacks comprise activities include Greenville, Mississippi, will deliver the 2006 nearly 70 percent of the city’s population and co-founding a non- Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Lecture, according to Hudson, remain “…on the bottom, profit organization November 9, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. in the Stone in terms of education, health and economic called Project Give Center Hitchcock Room. development.” The Delta region has historically Back. She is also the been one of the poorest regions in the country. Executive Director eather McTeer Hudson knew that While Hudson acknowledges that Greenville of the McTeer tough challenges lay ahead when has great resources and a great educated and Foundation, a non- Hshe was elected mayor of Greenville, trained workforce, her main goal as mayor is profit organization Mississippi in 2004. While many young and economic development. She hopes to lower the that serves over educated blacks might have left Greenville crime rate, build affordable housing, and attract 25 Mississippi Hudson behind for the big city life, Hudson decided large companies and jobs. Mayor Hudson is no School districts and differently. After graduating from Tulane stranger to helping build economic opportunity; over 2,000 students. In addition, the National University Law School in 2001, she dismissed while in college she spent a summer in Kenya, Conference of Black Mayors recently elected her the possibility of becoming a high-powered East Africa with the Crossroads Africa program to serve as 3rd Vice President. attorney and decided to return to her hometown helping to train women in business. The Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Lecture to make a difference. Displeased with the lack of Mayor Hudson also recognizes that racial is the signature program of the Center. It progress that the city had made, Hudson decided reconciliation is another important challenge features accomplished and distinguished African- that she wanted to help by getting involved in for Greenville. A 2004 poll by the Delta Business American female lecturers whose work embodies government. Journal Online indicated 86% of respondents the spirit and vision of Dr. Sonja Haynes Stone. Greenville, a city with an estimated believed that racial issues are still an obstacle in This lecture is free and open to the public. population of almost 40,000 citizens, is Mississippi. For more information, contact the Stone Center not unlike many small towns in the South. Mayor Hudson is currently an attorney at (919) 962-9001 or visit www.unc.edu/depts/ Greenville is no stranger to racial divide, with McTeer & Associates Law firm. Her other stonecenter. n  MILESTONES · f a ll 2 0 0 6

Students Use Undergraduate International Studies Fellowships to Travel and Study Abroad Stone Center fellowships contribute to UNC-Chapel Hill’s campus internationalization efforts

his fall 2006, Tiffany Okafor and who might not otherwise have the financial international activity for students, faculty, staff, Jonathan Pourzal will return to resources to participate in an international alumni, North Carolina citizens, and national Tthe UNC-Chapel Hill campus studies program. and international guests. The building will be intellectually inspired and culturally enriched Since 2004, several students have benefited named in recognition of a $5 million gift from after using Stone Center Undergraduate from The Stone Center Undergraduate the FedEx Corporation. International Studies Fellowships (UISF) for International Studies Fellowships. While on a The FedEx Global Education Center travel abroad during summer 2006. The annual mission to enhance their academic, personal is currently under construction on the fellowship program, funded through a generous and professional development, the past western end of campus near Pittsboro and gift of an anonymous alumnus, is administered fellowship recipients traveled to such places as McCauley streets and is to open in early 2007. by the Stone Center and gives students from Africa, Morocco and England. Beginning with the dedication in the spring, underrepresented groups up to $2,500 each to These fellowship recipients traveled to the the University plans to launch a yearlong pursue study or academic research abroad. following destinations: series of activities and programs highlighting Okafor, a junior majoring in dramatic art, UNC at Chapel Hill’s international assets and used her fellowship to travel to England where • Christina Lee – Bamako, Mali aspirations. she worked with two local theatre companies; • Clayton Perry – Accra, Ghana The new Global Education Center will the Apples & Snakes Performance Poetry • Amy Oraefo – Ghana and Nigeria house in one place all international and area Company and the Theatre Royal - Stratford • Mejs Hasan – Stockholm, Sweden studies programs for the College of Arts and East. Following her summer abroad, Okafor’s • Maurice Hines – Morocco Sciences, include spaces for interaction among immediate plans are to use the experience students, faculty and visiting scholars, provide to research, write, and develop a one-hour Strengthening the classroom space and a theatrical production while long term, she University’s international videoconferencing center, hopes to establish a theatre company. focus and outreach is a top A major and serve as a research center Pourzal, a junior journalism and mass priority for UNC at Chapel purpose of the for visiting foreign and U.S. communications major, used his fellowship to Hill. Chancellor Moeser has scholars, as well as graduate return to Uganda to conduct further research designated 2007 as a year of Stone Center’s and professional students. examining the cost and benefits of different international focus for Carolina, Undergraduate The programs slated to move models of community economic projects in conjunction with the into the building include including microfinance and income generation opening of the 80,000 square- International the Office of Study Abroad, activities. He plans to use the information foot Global Education Center. Fellowship Office of International collected to develop an internship program The Global Education Center Student and Scholar Services, through the Student Movement to End Child is unique among American program is Curriculum in International Suffering, a student group that he founded at colleges and universities in to assist the and Area Studies, Carolina the University in 2005. its effort to bring together Asia Center, University A major purpose of the Stone Center’s in one integrated facility University’s Center for International Undergraduate International Fellowship the three major components efforts to Studies, Carolina Center for program is to assist the University’s efforts to of international education: internationalize the Study of the Middle East internationalize the campus. In addition to student and faculty services, and Muslim Civilizations, these fellowships, the Stone Center also presents academic instruction and the campus African Studies Center, a Harvey E. Beech award to one student each programs, and research. The Center for Slavic, Eurasian year. The $1,000 Beech award is named in new building’s design reflects and East European Studies, recognition of the late Harvey E. Beech, one UNC-Chapel Hill’s essential values as a public Center for European Studies, Institute of Latin of the first African-Americans to graduate university, nurtures intellectual exploration American Studies, and the Global Research from the University. These fellowships support and innovation, and speaks proudly of its Institute. n international travel and study for those students global vision. It will serve as a vibrant hub of

Table of Contents Stone Center announces upcoming exhibit of Fall 2006 Program Calendar ...... 5-6 African-American Quilts ...... 1 Stone Center Plans Exciting Line-Up for Diaspora Film Festival ...... 7 Heather Hudson of Greenville, MI to Deliver 2006 Stone Center Welcomes Acclaimed Poet Sekou Sundiata Stone Memorial Lecture ...... 1 as Resident Artist ...... 7 Students Travel and Study Abroad ...... 2 Donor Generosity Contributes to Success of Stone Center ...... 8 Finding the Genome: Community Genetics Forum 2006 ...... 3 Stone Center Annual Report to the Community ...... 9-11 Communiversity Youth Program Celebrates 15 Year Anniversary ...... 4 Bright Future Ahead for Our Children’s Place ...... 12 The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History 

Finding the Genome: Community Genetics Forum 2006 n September 15 and 16, the the future of genetic technologies for our health have in hopes to separate fact from fiction and community will converge in and well-being. understand their concerns. OChapel Hill and Durham for The The Human Genome Project (HGP), an In support of this project, The Stone Center Community Genetics Forum, a series of international research effort to map the human will host a lecture/discussion with Fatimah workshops and events intended to engage the gene sequence, was completed in April 2003 Jackson, leading anthropologist, biologist and community in a dialogue on issues surrounding and has allowed scientists to view the human researcher on genomics and DNA testing in advancements in genetic research. The Forums genome from an entirely new perspective. The the African-American community. Jackson are organized by The Department of Social Community Genetics Forum will enhance will be the guest speaker for the Stone Center’s Medicine. public knowledge about the HGP, the future of African Diaspora Lecture Series on October 3, The Forum is co-sponsored by several genetic technology, and will also entail learning 2006. She has written extensively on genomics local and national organizations including from the public about interests and fears they including African American Responses to the UNC at Chapel Hill, The Parr Center for Human Genome Project. This lecture is co- Ethics, the Stone Center, the National Human sponsored by the Parr Center for Ethics. Genome Research Institute, Duke University, The Community Genetics The Stone Center will also screen the The North Carolina School for Science and Forum will enhance public documentary film The Trials of Darryl Hunt, on Mathematics, the Durham County Library, October 24, 2006. The film focuses on the life the National Institute for Health, the U.S. knowledge about the HGP, of Darryl Hunt, a black North Carolina man Department of Health and Human Services, the future of genetic who was wrongly convicted and sent to prison and the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences. technology, and will also for rape and murder. However, DNA evidence The Community Genetics Forum includes entail learning from the exonerated Hunt several years later. The film open ended community conversations, a screening is co-sponsored by the UNC School film and discussion series, and targeted public about interests and of Law. educational outreach. Each event will explore fears they have in hopes to For more information about the Community community thoughts on social, ethical and legal separate fact from fiction and Genetics Forum, contact Barbra Rothschild at implications of The Human Genome Project, (919) 966-3024 or visit http://genomics.unc. and inform the public on genetic science and understand their concerns. edu/cgf. n

Upcoming Events

Finding the Genome: African Diaspora Lecture Speaker Dr. Group Interests in Genetic Research Fatimah Jackson and Testing Tuesday, October 3, 2006 Friday, September 15, 2006 Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and UNC Chapel Hill Microbiology Research Building History 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Hitchcock Multipurpose Room Free and open to the public. 7:00 p.m. Free and open to the public. Finding the Genome: Community Diaspora Festival of Black Genetics Forum 2006 Reception and Independent Film Friday, September 15, 2006 The Trials of Darryl Hunt Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History Tuesday, October 24, 2006 Stone Center Terrace Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. History Faculty and students are welcome to attend. Hitchcock Multipurpose Room 7:00 p.m. The Human Genome and Being Human: Free and open to the public. A Community Conversation on Our DNA, Health, Values, and Heritage Saturday, September 16, 2006 The North Carolina School for Science and Mathematics Durham, NC 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Free and open to the public.  MILESTONES · f a ll 2 0 0 6

Communiversity Youth Program Celebrates 15 Year Anniversary Since 1992, the program has been synonymous with growth, change, and opportunity for many youth in surrounding African-American communities

erhaps no one envisioned the Communiversity Youth Program would Pblossom into the extremely successful program that it is today. Nonetheless, the Stone Center’s cornerstone program will celebrate 15 years of educating young people in the Chapel Hill and Carrboro communities. The program was created to honor Dr. Sonja Haynes Stone, for whom the Center is named. The Communiversity program is comprised of several after-school skills development and cultural enrichment components, and is managed by a full-time director and run with the support of University student volunteers who teach and mentor participants. The program components educate, empower and expose participating community youth to various aspects of African and African- American culture and history along with other cultural traditions through alternative teaching Titiuana Williams (participant) learns how to Jazz Dance with Iman Kehir methods. The program is designed to empower County Schools in Virginia who brought new children with tools that help them to build vitality and strength to the program says, “an lifelong skills essential for academic success and overwhelming dedication to continuing the for future roles in community leadership. To legacy of Dr. Sonja Haynes Stone has been help celebrate the 15-year milestone and the consistent throughout the school years. In program’s significance in the community, over fulfilling her vision, Communiversity continues the course of the 2006-07 academic year the to train, mentor, and tutor future leaders.” Stone Center plans to invite Communiversity Mack’s strong background in public graduates to speak about their experience in the education allowed her to hit the ground program. running. She implemented Communiversity’s Throughout its 15-year history the program first pre-test for students, designed to assess the has had several directors; each helping to student’s reading levels before the session began. strengthen Communiversity’s connections to Mack also made changes to the program’s the Chapel Hill/Carrboro City school systems Homework Assistance component by insisting and each working to ensure the highest level of that students are always working even if they Syretta Lyons assists Dominick Wick with his homework commitment from student volunteers. In July don’t have homework. 2005, Lotticia Mack became the coordinator Of course the program wouldn’t be what and with her arrival, the program began it is today without the tireless efforts of its site its year with a renewed sense of purpose. coordinators and counselors. The program Mack, a former English teacher with Fairfax has become so popular that many student Important 2006 volunteers return year after year. In fact, Giordon Rose poses for the camera Mack says that she has no problem recruiting Communiversity Dates: volunteers who want to work for the program. She credits the familial like environment and strong commitment of everyone involved n September 6th with the program’s success. “The impact that Parent Orientation Communiversity has had on our participants’ cultural enhancement and academic n September 9th development is truly exceptional. We have Volunteer Orientation worked together as a family committed to the greater good for the children in our program, n September 11th and for that I am grateful,” says Mack. This is First day of Communiversity surely a sentiment that Dr. Stone herself would likely share. For more information about Volunteer Applications are available on Communiversity, contact Lotticia Mack, line at www.unc.edu/depts/stonecenter Communiversity Director at (919) 962-9001. n the university of north carolina at chapel hill

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Diaspora Festival of Black and wednesday, Inbetween Spaces: Textured sept. 21 Independent Film sept. 13 Imaginings of African-American Lives – dec. 6 A special section of the 2006 Diaspora Festival The Stone Center proudly presents Inbetween 7 p.m. thursday, the stone center addresses the theme: Diaspora to Diaspora: Spaces: Textured Imaginings of African-American robe rt and sallie African-American/Southeast Asian Encounters. sept. 14 Lives, a colorful collection of beautifully textured brown galle ry and 7 p.m. museum The festival opens on Thursday, September 14 the stone ce nte r quilts by Dr. Heather Williams, assistant professor with Sophia Kaushal’s feature-length film, Dreams hitchcock of history at UNC at Chapel Hill. Through the & Passions, where Indian born Sara and an multipurpose room traditional art of quilting, Williams uses vibrant African-American exchange student meet and set off free colors, textures, fabrics and poignant images to a dramatic chain of events. chronicle the lives of African-Americans.

director sophia kaushal and co-writer/co-actor opening reception: thursday september 21 at 7 p.m. jon poindexter will participate in a q&a discus- sion after the screening. gallery hours: monday - friday, 10 a.m - 7 p.m. ** Special Program – Join Sophia Kaushal and Jon Poindexter at the Apple Store, Southpoint Mall in Discussion of African-American thursday, Durham on Wednesday, September 13 for a dem- Women Quilting: A Framework sept. 28 onstration/discussion on the making of Dreams and for Conceptualizing and Teaching 7 p.m. the stone center Passions, their feature length film was made on a African-American Women’s History, robe rt and sallie Macintosh computer. brown galle ry and an essay by Elsa Barkley Brown. museum Dr. Heather Williams will lead a discussion of Elsa Barkley Brown’s essay that uses quilting as a Diaspora Festival of Black and monday, metaphor for exploring African-American women’s Independent Film – An Evening of sept. 18 history and experiences. Short Films 7 p.m. the stone ce nte r Join us and writer/director Leena Pendharkar, hitchcock as she screens and discusses her short film, This multipurpose room 2006-07 Visiting Artist Sekou oct. 3 - 5 Moment, the story of Uma, a 20-something Indian free Sundiata the stone center American woman and her African-American boy- In association with the Carolina Performing Arts friend John Ray, who surprises Uma with a mar- Series, The Stone Center welcomes visiting Artist- riage proposal. Uma finds herself at a crossroads in-Residence and acclaimed poet Sekou Sundiata. between following her heart or her father’s wishes for The multi-faceted performance poet will share his her to marry an Indian man. talents and wisdom with the UNC at Chapel Hill community during his residency. We will also screen Library Majnu, A modern day Romeo and Juliet story with a Bollywood twist, and We’re Indian and African: Voices of the Sidis, African Diaspora Lecture Series tuesday, Beheroze Shroff’s examination of the African roots The Stone Center welcomes Dr. Fatimah Jackson, of India’s Sidis. oct. 3 professor of applied biological anthropology at the 7 p.m. the stone center University of Maryland, and a leading researcher hitchcock on bioethics, genomics and DNA testing in the multipurpose room African-American community. Dr. Jackson will address the implications of DNA and genomics research for African-Americans, particularly the use of DNA to trace African ancestry.

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Diaspora Festival of Black and tuesday, Discussion of Alice Walker’s thursday, Independent Film oct. 24 Everyday Use with Dr. Heather november 16 The Trials of Darryl Hunt 7 p.m. Williams 7 p.m. the stone center the stone ce nte r This documentary film explores the tribulations hitchcock Dr. Heather Williams, designer and creator of the robe rt and sallie of Darryl Hunt, the Winston-Salem, NC man multipurpose room pieces featured in the Inbetween Spaces quilt exhib- brown galle ry and museum who was tried and convicted of the 1984 rape and it, leads a discussion of Alice Walker’s short story, murder of Deborah Sykes. The State of North Everyday Use. Carolina tried Hunt twice – first in 1985 and again in 1989, both trials resulted in a guilty ver- date tba dict. Throughout the ordeal, Hunt proclaimed his Quilting Workshop the stone center robe rt and sallie innocence and even declined a plea bargain. Dogged A great opportunity to learn the art of quilting brown galle ry and pursuit of his case by a dedicated group of lawyers – facilitated by Dr. Heather Williams, this work- museum and supporters kept Hunt’s case alive. Finally, in shop ties in with the Inbetween Spaces: Textured 2004, DNA evidence freed Hunt. Imaginings of African-American Lives quilt exhibit.

after the screening of the film, participate in a discussion with darryl hunt, one of the members of his legal team, and ricki stern and annie sund- berg, the filmmakers. Co-sponsored by UNC School of Law.

2006 Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial thursday, Lecture: Heather McTeer Hudson nov. 9 The 2006 Sonja Haynes Stone Memorial Lecture 7 p.m. the stone ce nte r welcomes Heather McTeer Hudson, the first African- hitchcock American and the first woman to serve as mayor of multipurpose room Greenville, Mississippi. A Greenville native and Tulane University Law School graduate, Hudson dismissed the possibility of becoming a high-powered attorney and decided to return to her hometown to make a difference by becoming involved in local gov- ernment.

THE The Stone Center works with numerous departments and units of SONJA the University to help promote interdisciplinary inquiry, as well as focused examinations from various interdisciplinary and disciplinary HAYNES perspectives. STONE The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History: CENTER Is a Center for culture, research, outreach and service; Questions what it means to be of African descent in the Americas and how for BLACK Black identities, cultures and histories in the diaspora are constructed; and CULTURE Critically examines the role that culture and identity play in social change AND and community development. www.unc.edu/depts/stonecenter HISTORY

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Stone Center Plans Exciting Line-Up for Diaspora Film Festival he Stone Center is gearing up for Paul Angunawela’s Library Majnu, described as a members of his another exciting line-up of films that “modern day Romeo and Juliet with a Bolly- legal team, and Texplore various corners of the African wood Twist”. Ricki Stern and Diaspora and beyond. The Diaspora Festival of The final film in the shorts program titled Annie Sundberg, Black and Independent Films will feature an We’re Indian and African: Voices of the Sidis, the filmmakers. array of films exploring topics that raise serious directed by Beheroze Shroff, examines de- This powerful political and social issues. The festival opens scendents of Africans living in modern-day film has earned on September 14 with a special series entitled India. This documentary explores the lives of several awards Diaspora to Diaspora: African-American/Southeast the Afro-Indian Sidis of Bava Gor village in including Best Asian Encounters. The films include Dreams & Gujarat. The men and women talk about the Documentary at Passions, This Moment, Library Majnu, and We’re challenges of their work as caretakers of the the Sedona Film Indian and African: Voices of the Sidis. shrine of their ancestral saint Bava Gor. The Festival (2006), Film stills from This Dreams & Passions, documentary also gives a Nashville Film Moment (above, top) and directed and produced by glimpse into the spiritual Festival (2006), Dreams & Passions (above) Sophia Kaushal, examines legacy of the Sidis through and Palm Beach the relationship between the Parsi devotees of Bava International Film Festival (2006) and received Indian born Sara, played Gor in Bombay. The film great reviews at the 2006 Sundance Film Festi- by Kaushal, and Danzel, played at the 2005 Pan Af- val. The Trials of Darryl Hunt will premiere on an African-American rican Film Festival in Los HBO in 2007. exchange student played Angeles and at the 2005 The Diaspora Festival of Black and Inde- by Jon Poindexter, the Zanzibar International pendent Films is the Stone Center’s twice a film’s screenwriter. Dreams Film Festival in Tanzania. year series featuring primarily independent film & Passions was selected Director Leena Pend- from all corners of the African Diaspora. All as a finalist in the feature harker will participate screenings are free and open to the public. For films category at the 2006 in a Q&A following the more information, call (919) 962-9001. n Hollywood Black Film showing of her film, This Festival. Moment, and will also lead On September 18 the the discussion of Library or 2006-07, the Stone Center’s series continues with a Manju and We’re Indian and F annual Diaspora Festival of Black series of short films includ- African. and Independent Film returns with an Film still from The Trials of Darryl ing Leena Pendharkar’s In October, the festival Hunt exciting line-up of work from independent This Moment, which takes a different turn as directors from around the world and explores the interracial relationship between it shifts focus with the showing of The Trials of features a special section entitled Diaspora Uma, a 20-something Indian woman and her Darryl Hunt. This documentary film explores to Diaspora: African-American/Southeast African-American boyfriend John Ray. Uma is the tribulations of Darryl Hunt, a black man Asian Encounters. This part of the forced to choose between following her heart in Winston-Salem, NC convicted twice of the festival will examine some of the issues or traditional Indian culture. rape and murder of Deborah Sykes, a white surrounding African-American/Southeast This Moment has been screened at numer- copywriter for a Winston-Salem newspaper in Asian relations that first captured popular ous film festivals around the country including 1984. Hunt was finally exonerated and released thought with the 1993 release of Mira the Hamptons International Film Festival, the in 2004 after DNA testing proved his inno- Nair’s Mississippi Masala, starring Denzel Harlem Film Festival, and the Women of Color cence. A panel discussion following the film Washington and Sarita Choudhury. Film Festival. Also on the shorts program is screening will include Darryl Hunt, one of the Another film, Bhaji on the Beach, set in Great Britain, followed that same year and included a subplot featuring a love affair between a black man and a Southeast Asian woman. Even in an age when youth Stone Center Welcomes Acclaimed Poet cultures have crossed lines of race and ethnicity much more frequently than in the past, any type of casual pairing of Sekou Sundiata as Resident Artist blacks and Southeast Asians are rare in n association with the performed in highly-acclaimed, U.S. popular culture and particularly in Carolina Performing Arts award-winning performance film. The films included in this series will Series, the Stone Center theater works and is currently a explore some of the underlying reasons for I this state of affairs. welcomes nationally acclaimed professor at Eugene Lang College performance poet Sekou in New York City. Some of Diaspora to Diaspora: Sundiata as artist-in-residence his notable accomplishments African-American/Southeast Asian for 2006-2007. During his include being featured in the Bill Encounters residency, Sundiata will share Moyers’ PBS series on poetry and his thoughts and wisdom appearances on Russell Simmons’ Thursday, September 14 @ 7 p.m. with the UNC at Chapel Hill Def Poetry Jam (HBO). In • Dreams & Passions, Sophia Kaushal community by engaging in a addition, Sundiata has recorded Monday, September 18 @ 7 p.m. variety of campus activities. two albums: the Grammy- • This Moment, Leena Pendharkar Sundiata is best known for nominated The Blue Oneness of • Library Majnu, Paul Angunawela The America Project, which Dreams (1997) and its successor, • We’re Indian and African: Voices of the Sidis, consists of a cluster of public engagement longstoryshort (2000). Beheroze Shroff activities and the music theater performance, In the spring Sundiata returns to campus the 51st (dream) state. The America Project is for a performance of the 51st (dream) state at A highlight of the festival will be the Sundiata’s contemplation on America’s national Memorial Hall scheduled for January 26, 2007. screening of The Trials of Darryl Hunt. identity, its power in the world, and its guiding He will also lead a Citizenship Dinner for the Tuesday, October 24 @ 7 p.m. mythologies. This work is co-commissioned by Stone Center where audience members will • The Trials of Darryl Hunt, Annie Sundberg Carolina Performing Arts. be invited to participate in a discussion about and Ricki Stern The Harlem-born Sundiata has written and citizenship and civic consciousness. n  MILESTONES · f a ll 2 0 0 6

Donor Generosity Contributes to Success of Stone Center The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History continues its mission with the financial support of the many alumni and friends who give generously to the organization. These individuals are key to the center’s current and future efforts. The Stone Center greatly appreciates and recognizes the first-time donors to the Stone Center for the 2006 fiscal year through June 27, 2006:

Carol Brown Alan Cherry Ophelia Crawford Kerry Lee Haynie Gloria Mittman McNeill Francis Armando Perez Suarez Iris Nixon Anasine Marjorie Lancaster Crowell Joseph Cooley High Barbara Butler McPherson Jr. Doretta Davis Anderson Anthony Wayne Cummings Vanessa Hodges Charles Everette Mills Linda Daniek Sutton Angeline Monique Antonio William Alexander Darity Jr. Ronald Stuart Holland Jr. Wanda Tucker Moore Terita Sutton-Williams Adrienne Pruden Ashby Bernice Howard Davenport Frances McFarland Horne Mary Nunn Morrow Maxine McMahon Swalin Deborah Ann Austin Kenya Tanganyika Davis Emma Worthy Howard Michael Moseley Ira Stanley Sykes Caroline Susan Austin Francine Dalton Davis Sonia Lenise Huntley Denise Michelle Murrell Angela Lisa Talton Elbert Lee and Dr. Katrina Russell Morgan Davis Lynn Moody Igoe Lewis Horace Myers Dorothy Elliott Thomas Avery Chasiti Adrella Dawson Jokena Charissee Smith Islam DeVetta Holman Nash Michael Anthony Thompson David Kelsey Baker Sr. Cheryl Denise Day Akiia Robertson James Anne Wilson Neville Phillip Zachary Timmons D Arkell Barnes Malene Jackson Dixon Deborah M Jefferies Paula Renee Newsome Andrea Fulton Toliver Beatrice Webber Barrow Pamela Dockery-Howard Selena Shade Jimenez Jacquelyn McCray Nowell Dacia Merle Sampson Toll Gustavus Bass Linda Brown Douglas Elondust Patrick Johnson Nathlyn Bryant Ohree Carrie Clark Tomlin Leslie Mashel Bauknight Sally Kaye Dove Kenneth McArthur Johnson Abayomi Iroroye Owei Damon and Dr. Deitra Toone Bernard Edgar Bell Suzette Thompson Dudley Clifford Phillips Jones Linda Jenkins Pace Caroline Ward Treadwell Calvin Arthur Bell Russell Lee Dula Opal Ellis Jones Derwick Lydell Paige Donna Helen Triptow Gloria Berry-Holly Roberta Ann Dunbar Gregory Jones Carmel Mary Paleski Eli Taylor Ullum Crystal Darvin Biles Joretta Durant Royce Etienne Joyner Monica Glynn Parham Jonathan Blaine Vaughters Elroy Donald Black Jr. Connie Clare Eble Nancy Kalow Jan Paris Karen Sears Vertreese Judith Gatling Blaylock Carol Willis Echols Lynne K Kane Henry Newton Patterson Jr. Luchara R Sayles Wallace Kristen Suzanne Bonatz Tiffany Walker Edwards Connie Kelley-Sidberry Katherine Birmingham Perot Sherrylyn Ford Wallace Kristi Joy Booker Lloyd and Dr. Lori Edwards Audrey Cordelia Kelsey Clayton R. 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on other campuses, they spoke with various Highlights audiences about the human rights situation of The 2005-6 school year marked an Afro-Peruvians as well as the general situation important milestone for the Sonja Haynes of human rights descendants in the Americas. Stone Center for Black Culture and History. This latter theme was taken up in the second We completed our second full year of operation program in the series that featured Zulia Mena, in the new Stone Center building and set new and Afro-Colombian leader and activist who performance and service records along the was also the first Black woman to be elected way. We also successfully completed the fourth to Congress in Colombia. Accompanying her year of our Strategic Plan and, along the way was human rights worker Gimena Sanchez- updated several aspects of our administrative activists and public officials who are concerned Garzoli of Peace Brigades International. Both work to better accomplish the objectives and about the fate of children of incarcerated emphasized the perilous position of Afro- goals we set for ourselves. During the coming mothers. Our Children’s Place is designed to Colombians in the ongoing violence that has year, and as we finish the fifth and final year of allow children to live with their mothers in a gripped Colombian society for the last twenty the Strategic Plan, we will once again focus our residential nonprofit facility, while the women years. They also presented information on the attention on improving ourselves in three areas are serving their sentences for nonviolent plight of internally displaced communities that that define our work: scholarship and scholarly offenses. This innovative program is designed represent one of the largest such populations initiatives; arts and cultural programming; and, to break the intergenerational cycle of crime, in the world. Of great interest to attendees at social justice outreach. poverty, substance abuse and family violence a Brown Bag Lunch held as part of the visit of This last area, social justice outreach, and to enhance each child’s cognitive, physical, Mena and Sanchez-Garzoli, was their report signals a change from previous years when social and emotional development. OCP on the development of Peace Communities as we described our service to communities represents an alternative approach to separating for innocent Colombians to avoid the sectarian outside of the campus as community service the child from the mother for reasons of violence that threatens their lives on a daily outreach. We decided that our work in this maternal incarceration. basis. area should reflect some important social and The second initiative is the Cultural Our collaboration with UCIS to sponsor this political realities about the problems and issues Committee of African-American/Latino/a series of Human Rights residencies and brown we addressed in our community work. First, Alliance. The African-American Latino/a bag lunches reinforces our overall objective of we acknowledge that each of these issues or Alliance is a developing coalition of Black providing challenging forums, outside of the problems had underlying social causes that and Latino workers organizations and activists classroom, where students, faculty, staff and could not be ignored, and that were often working to build unity between the two the surrounding community can discuss key related to inequities in the social order. We communities. Their goal is to avoid conflicts contemporary issues and problems. still felt that we had an obligation to continue at the workplace and in the community and to A similar collaboration to offer service to the community and work to develop a culture of cooperation and struggle. with the Southern alleviate problems. But we also determined that The alliance focuses on organizing, historical Historical Collection, we needed to offer ways for students and other studies and political education. But the sponsors of a visit by campus community members to develop an members are also engaged in intentional efforts author Thulani Davis analysis and critique of the underlying causes of at fostering an appreciation of the similarities and historian Taylor those problems. found in the respective cultures, including Branch, highlighted two For us, this approach effectively transformed common roots, and their applications to the approaches to African- community service outreach to social justice struggle for social justice. Music, painting, American history. Davis, outreach the moment we committed ourselves dance, poetry and other forms of popular an acclaimed novelist and to service only after we made a similar pledge culture are being explored to complement the playwright, presented to work to eliminate the underlying causes Alliances organizing and mobilization strategy. her latest book, My Confederate Kinfolk, and of specific problems. During 2005-6 we took a journey through her family’s past in this formalized this new conceptualization of our compelling intersection of genealogy, memoir, outreach work by changing some aspects of our Other Collaborations and reconstruction history. This event was also Communiversity Youth Programs, the longest of Note co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library at running program at the Stone Center (entering UNC-Chapel Hill. While highlighting another Besides our support for the African- its 15th consecutive year of operation); and by aspect of African-American history, Branch American History Month Lecture and the working to help develop two additional local spoke about At Canaan’s Edge, the last in a Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration, the Stone initiatives. trilogy of works on the Civil Rights Movement Center co-sponsors, jointly sponsors or supports The first is Our Children’s Place (OCP), and its most prominent figure, Martin Luther the work of many other departments/offices an initiative of a coalition of Triangle area King, Jr. Branch spoke to a packed audience within the university. At least 30 percent of in the Stone Center Theatre and Auditorium, Stone Center programming and project work is Peyton Harris assisting Shekenta Torain where the staff of the Southern Historical conducted as part of a collaborative effort. with the day’s lesson. Collection and the Center for the Study of the In the fall the Stone Center, American South served as hosts. with support from the University The Stone Center regularly joins the Center for International Studies Southern Historical Collection in various (UCIS) combined its support for projects and supports their work to preserve internationalization of the campus, African-American culture and history as part with its focus on social justice of their overall mission to document southern outreach, in a series of programs on history. human rights in the African diaspora Throughout the year the Stone Center has in the Americas. The first program worked on numerous projects with one of its featured a month long Diaspora closest campus partners, the Institute for Latin Human Rights residency by Afro- American Studies (ILAS), which shares our Peruvian human rights activists interest in Afro-Latin issues, among other Monica Carillo and Milagritos de la concerns. Our collaboration with ILAS, along Rosa. In a series of presentations on with our close relationship with the curriculum campus, in community settings, and in Latina/o Affairs, assures that the campus 10 MILESTONES · f a ll 2 0 0 6

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will have continued access to programming which won the 2004 Beyond and projects that are concerned with the Black Margins Award from the presence in Latin America and the Black PEN American Center. presence in Latin communities in the U.S. Perdomo’s itinerary included During 2005-6 The Stone Center, ILAS and a workshop and community the Curriculum in Latina/o Studies jointly reading of his work at sponsored twelve programs. New Horizons Writing One of our most important and well- Workshop; a reading at the attended programs was the visit by the scholars Mary Lou Williams Center from the Future of Minority Studies Research at Duke; and a two week Project. The Stone Center and Ilas joined forces writing workshop at the with American Studies, Women’s Studies, Stone Center for the campus Modernity/Coloniality Study Group, the community and others. English Department, the School of Education, The spring also brought Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., the University Lyndon Barrois, a Los Program in Cultural Studies to bring professors Bakari Kitwana and Raquel Rivera Angeles based artist and film Satya P. Mohanty of Cornell University, Linda animator, to the Stone Center for a short-term Martin Alcoff of Syracuse University, Michael the symposium series attracted audiences from residency. Barrois is one of the few African Hames-Garcia of the University of Oregon, across the campus and from throughout the Americans working in computer-generated and Paula M. L. Moya of Stanford University entire triangle region. The Center’s popular and film animation at this level in Hollywood to discuss their new book, Identity Politics annual Diaspora Festival of Black and Independent today. The award-winning animator is best Reconsidered. Based on the ongoing work of Film attracted critical filmgoers, scholars and known for his the agenda-setting Future of Minority Studies others to view new offerings from around the work as supervisor national research project, Identity Politics world. The fest opened with two offbeat but or director of Reconsidered reconceptualizes the scholarly interesting offerings, Girlbeat: The Power of animation for such and political significance of social identity. the Drum, and Oaxaca Hoops, a short film films as Elektra, I made in Oaxaca, Mexico, where basketball Robot, The Matrix is the number one sport and pastime. This Revolutions, The year’s festival was augmented by a special series Matrix Reloaded, devoted to an eclectic set of films deemed Scooby Doo, and too avant-garde for general audiences. This Kung Pow: Enter program of independent shorts and features was the Fist. Barrois is called the Beneath the Underground Film Series, Barrois also known as the and also attracted a solid set of hard-core film innovator behind aficionados interested in cutting edge work. “gumation”—characters fashioned from chewing gum wrappers and captured through stop-motion filming. Residencies While in residence Barrois visited classes in The Stone Center hosted three resident the School of Journalism, the Department of African/Afro-American Studies, the Johnston Identitity Politics Reconsidered artists during the year, all who donated significant time to take their art to the Center for Undergraduate Excellence, and the community as well as to other units on the Communiversity Program of the Stone Center. The Scholarship of UNC at Chapel Hill campus.. In the fall Poet Barrois also conducted an open workshop at a and activist Suheir Hammad joined the Stone Brown Bag lunch. Culture and the Arts Center as artist-in-residence. Recipient of the The Stone Center is always challenged in Audre Lourde Writing Award from Hunter its programming in the arts and culture. From College, the Palestinian-American poet is Internationalizing its inception the Center has been concerned the author of three books of poetry including Stone Center with the connections between the performance Born Palestinian, Born Black, Drops of this Story, and practice of Black culture(s) and the and her latest release, Zaatardiva. During her Collaborations ways that the academy understands these stay she led the Center’s Hekima Book and Beyond our work highlighting human expressions. During 2005-6, the Stone Center Discussion group (featuring her work, Born rights of Afro-Descendants in Latin America, sponsored a symposium series entitled, Black Palestinian, Born Black), and a held a book we have been more focused this year in Popular Cultures/Black Popular Struggles, signing for Zaatardiva, in association with the connecting to specific groups and institutions, that examined the intersection of culture Bulls Head Bookstore. She also held workshops particularly in Colombia and Venezuela. In and struggle in people-centered expressions in the community for students from the New May of 2005 I, as director of the Stone Center, of art and Black aesthetics. Starting from the Horizons Writing Workshop sponsored by traveled to Caracas, Venezuela to take part in notion that culture has always been a means Spirit House. an Afro-Descendants Conference sponsored for preserving specific ways of life for Black In the spring the Stone Center welcomed by the Afro-Venezuelan Network, a group peoples, we followed that thread of logic to try Willie Perdomo, one of most well-known and of non-governmental organizations (ngo) to uncover the politics embedded in those same regarded Latino writers, and the author of three working collectively to ensure the rights of cultural projects. collections of poetry including Smoking Lovely, Black communities. Representatives from The opening program in the series featured throughout Latin America and the Caribbean Suheir Hammad Bakari Kitwana, cultural critic and author of were in attendance the Hip-Hop Generation, among other texts, along with others from and Raquel Rivera, journalist, sociologist the United States. and author of New York ‘Ricans From the Important messages Hip-Hop Zone. Another program in the and expressions of series offered a critical view of sport and the support were included Black athlete explored the ways black athletes in the presentations by operated within the sociopolitical contexts of government ministers their times. Panelists included Hanif Omar, from Venezuela, host of WNCU-FM’s weekly sports show Fast Brazil and Cuba while Break, former UNC basketball All-American ngo representatives Pam Leake, former UNC and NFL football of Afro-descendant standout Jason Brown, and UNC football groups from Uruguay, standout Tommy Davis (signed by the New Peru, Ecuador, Haiti, Orleans Saints in the 2006 draft). Guyana and other states These, and other programs offered as part of delivered reports on The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History 11

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specific sectors in their countries. celebrated the initiation of African and Afro- Studies. Recently this institution established While at the conference, I traveled to Venezuelan Studies in one of the university a National Documentation Center for Afro- Higuerote in the Barlovento region of the systems. In the coming year we hope to hold Colombian Cultures in partnership with several country to meet with administrators at the further meetings and to discuss avenues of Colombian agencies, the U.S. Department Instituto Universitario de Barlovento, one of cooperation. During the same period I also of State and the Colombia Program of the only historically Black institutions in Latin traveled to several areas of Colombia including Georgetown University. Again, the Stone America. On two subsequent visits, one in Quibdo in Choco region where I visited the Center has been invited to participate in this August 2005, and the most recent in May 2006, Universidad Tecnologica del Choco, and its project as a partner and, in the coming year, we I reconnected to these same officials as they Center for Afrocolombian and Indigenous hope to explore this possibility. n

Selected Programs 2005-6

Beneath the Underground Film Beneath the Underground Film Resident Fellow Lyndon Barrois Screening Screening march 6 th - march 9 th, 2006 Girl Beat: The Power of the Drum and Motherland: A Genetic Journey Touchstones: Tuesday Night Open Oaxcan Hoops october 18 th, 2005 th Mic Poetry september 12 , 2005 st Stone Memorial Lecture march 21 , 2006 Human Rights Brown Bag Lunch Malika Sanders Co-sponsored by TRIBES Magazine, Durham’s Spirit Monica Carrillo and Milagritos de la Rosa november 8 th, 2005 House arts collective september 20 th, 2005 Diaspora Festival of Black and Author Junot Díaz Co-sponsored by the University Center for International april 4 th, 2006 Studies Independent Film Co-sponsored by the UNC-CH Latina/o Culture(s) Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Bakari Kitwana Book Signing Speakers Series, the English Department, the College of Black Power Arts and Sciences, Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, september 22 nd, 2005 november 14 th, 2005 wilson library pleasant family the Institute for African American Research, and the Latino/a Studies Gift Fund reading room Beneath the Underground Film Black Popular Cultures/Black Screening Micah Gilmer Popular Struggles Symposium Julia, All in Me; Nelly’s Bodega Mzantsi! South African Hip-Hop th september 22 nd, 2005 november 17 , 2005 Presentation of a Student International Research Project Diaspora Festival of Black and Black Popular Cultures/Black april 12 th, 2006 Independent Film Popular Struggles Performance Boricua With Hip-Hop Group Language Arts Day of the Poet th th september 28 th, 2005 november 18 , 2005 april 20 , 2006 Co-sponsored by the High School Literary Project, the Book Discussion with Lawrence Fleeting Memory Enduring Legacy: School of Education, the Research Triangle Schools Blum The people of La Costa Chica, Oaxaca, Partnership “I’m not a Racist, but…” Mexico Opening Reception th th january 13 , 2006 Identity Politics Reconsidered september 29 , 2005 april 20 th, 2006 Co-sponsored by the Parr Center for Ethics Co-sponsored by: the African American/Latino Alliance, the Institute for Latin American Studies, the Friends of Co-sponsored by the Institute of Latin American the Robert and Sallie Brown Gallery and Museum Studies, American Studies, Women’s Studies, Modernity/ African American Art Collectors Coloniality Studies, the English Department, the School Exhibit He Was A Poem: An Evening of of Education, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., the september 30 th - december 15 th University Program in Cultural Studies 2005 Poetry Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King th Day of the Poet Open Mic Diaspora Festival of Black and january 17 , 2006 april 21 st, 2006 Independent Film Co-sponsored by the Theta Pi Chapter of Alpha Kappa I Know What You Did Last Semester Alpha Sorority Inc. october 4 th, 2005 Thulani Davis Reading: My Resident Fellow Suheir Hammad: Confederate Kinfolk october 4 th-7 th, 2005 january 23 rd, 2006 Fast Facts Sponsored by the Friends of the Library at UNC- Human Rights Brown Bag Lunch Chapel Hill n The Stone Center held more Norma Jackson, Gimena Sanchez-Garzoli than 80 programs and events and Zulia Mena Willie Perdomo Residency th th during the 2005-06 academic october 10 th, 2005 february 9 - march 7 , 2006 year. Co-sponsored by UCIS Black Popular Cultures/Black Sarah Jones Performance Popular Struggles Symposium: n Approximately 115 different october 13 th, 2005 Sport and the Black Athlete departments, campus units, th Co-sponsored by ECHO february 16 , 2006 and student groups sponsored Co-sponsored by the Theta Pi Chapter of Alpha Kappa programs at the Stone Center. Black Popular Cultures/Black Alpha Sorority Inc. and the Lambda Psi Chapter Sigma Popular Struggles Symposium Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. n More than 2,500 people R&B Soul Legacies Hekima Reading Circle october 17 th, 2005 attended Stone Center programs The Piano Lesson by August Wilson and events during the 2005-06 nd february 22 , 2006 academic year. Sponsored by the Lambda Psi Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. spring 2006 v o l u m e 4 i s s u e 1 Bright Future Ahead for Our Stone Center Staff

Joseph Jordan Director Children’s Place 919.962.9001 [email protected] hen a child is taken from its mother Assistant Director shortly after birth the consequences 919.962.9001 Wcan be damaging. What’s worse, what Trevaughn Eubanks if the new mother gives birth while incarcerated children. The new facility will also offer infant Administrative Director in a North Carolina correctional facility? It is care and pre-school. To reach its goals, the 919.962.9001 estimated that 13 percent of North Carolina’s organization is seeking $3.7 million dollars for [email protected] female offenders are pregnant when admitted into this renovation project. To date, the organization Lotticia Mack prison. How can concerned individuals combat has received grants from the Z. Smith Reynolds Communiversity Coordinator this growing problem? A statewide non-profit Foundation, U.S. Department of Housing and 919.962.9001 Urban Development, the Governor’s Crime [email protected] initiative is proposing a solution called Our Children’s Place that would keep mothers and Commission, the State of North Carolina and the Jumoke Blaize their children together and to help break the cycle Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. Program Coordinator 919.962.9001 of poverty and crime. Strong supporters of the group include North [email protected] When it is established, Our Children’s Place Carolina State Senator Ellie Kinnaird, House Olympia Friday (OCP), modeled after similar programs in other Representative Margaret Dickson, U.S. Senator Public Relations Officer states, will allow children of non-violent offenders Elizabeth Dole and Stone Center Director Joseph 919.962.7265 to live with their mothers in a highly structured Jordan. Jordan is an OCP board member and [email protected] living environment. As a participant, the mother firmly believes in its mission. A fundraising Raquel Von Cogell would receive in-depth counseling, job skills concert was held at the Stone Center in 2005 to Stone Center Librarian training, parenting classes, and substance abuse help OCP reach its goals. Other supporters of the 919.843.5808 treatment if needed. By giving children the program include endorsements by the Covenant [email protected] opportunity to form healthy relationships with with North Carolina’s Children and the Office of Gregg Moore their mothers, the program would be considered Congressman David Price. Stone Center Assistant Librarian an investment in their future. Statistics show that For more information on Our Children’s Place, 919.843.5804 [email protected] mothers participating in these kinds of programs are please contact Sarah Shapard at (919) 698-6624 or less likely to revert back to criminal behavior. OCP via email at [email protected]. If you would like Randy Simmons Facilities and Room Reservations board members believe that this program would be to make a donation to the program, please send Manager much more cost effective than other alternatives and your tax-deductible donations to: 919.843.1854 has plans to work with university researchers who [email protected] will follow the children and mothers throughout the Our Children’s Place n program to monitor its success. c/o Summit House Shared Services

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