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With a baseball cap on his head and a “¡Sí se puede!” poster in hand, Derrick N. Ashong ’97-’98 appeared every bit the enthusiastic but uninformed young Obama supporter to a man wielding a video camera outside of the 2008 Democratic presidential primary debate in Hollywood, Calif...
...next three years. The endeavor aimed to foster racial mixing and end the concentration of minority students and athletes in certain houses. Reaction to this plan was fairly mixed at first, with some student minority leaders expressing doubts about the consequences of the move. For instance, Derrick N. Ashong ’97, a former president of the BSA, worried that the plan would cause splintering in the Black community...
...culture to spread positive images of Africa. “Over 100 years of tyranny and oppression didn’t make an African a nigger, but 15 years of hip hop did it...and some of us are fed up,” SMT founder Derrick N. Ashong ’97 said at Saturday’s opening speech. “If pop culture can turn us against ourselves, then why can’t we use it as a tool to uplift and build up one another?” The conference kicked off Friday evening...
...This is just the beginning. I’m really looking forward to seeing what they become,” Ashong says...
...Black Men’s Forum has its charter renewed by Derrick N. Ashong ’97-’98 and fellow classmates after a long period of dormancy. First Celebration of Black Women occurs...