As part of Black History Month, the Communication Department has invited Dr. Aleen Ratzlaff, Associate Professor at Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas, to speak on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 7 p.m. in Room 202 in McEwen Hall.
She will be speaking about the Black Press and African American Communities.
Her research explores how the Black Press functioned as a community building and extender. Using the theories of Benedict Anderson, she explains how the black press functioned as an "Imagined Community" that brought people together through the shared communication provided by newspapers.
Aleen won the American Journalism Historian's Association Dissertation Award as well as the graduate research and teaching awards at the University of Florida.
She is a member of the Speaker's Bureau of the Kansas Humanities Council.
