Jan. 15, 2007 10:32 a.m.
CHAMPION TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- The documentary "Invisible Struggles: Stories of Northern Segregation," has been picked up by television station WNEO/WEAO PBS 45/49 as a featured part of the station's Black History Month programming in February. The documentary was directed by Molly Merryman, Ph.D., assistant professor of justice studies and co-written by Merryman, Ken J. Bindas, Ph.D., professor of history, and Paula Johnson, a student at the KSU Trumbull Campus here.
The documentary will air three times: Feb. 5, at 9 p.m.; Feb. 6 at 12:30 a.m.; and Feb. 11 at 2 p.m. Each airing will be followed by the broadcast of a town forum on contemporary race relations that is being held at 7 p.m. Feb. 1 at Packard Music Hall in Warren, Ohio. The town meeting is free and open to the public.
The town meeting will be preceded at 5:30 p.m. by a president's reception hosted by Lester A. Lefton, president of Kent State University. Tickets for the reception, which will raise scholarship money, can be purchased for $100 by contacting Chris Cooney at (330) 675-7600.
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