Word: ashong
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Dates: during 1995-1995
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...hope that through this event we will establish a tradition at the University of recognizing and celebrating the contributions of Black women to our society," said Derrick N. Ashong '97, president of Black Men's Forum...
...older woman reluctantly talks to a younger one in a laundromat. They discover that they share a last name, Johnson, and then proceed to uncover each others' histories until their exploration is disturbed by the entrance of a man, a slick radio personality named Shooter (Derrick N. Ashong...
...temperature immediately rises any time Ashong walks on stage. His Shooter is a deejay with a wandering eye, deeply conflicted by the shadow of his father, a legendary pool hustler who has committed suicide, and the specter of his wife, whose devotion to Shooter is rivalled only by her passion for shopping...
...Ashong plays his part with real emotional depth, conveying the battle between his better instincts towards his family, his troubled history, and the easy path provided by his $60,000 job at the radio station. "When you are a personality," he tells Willie with veiled self-contempt, "You don't have to have a personality...
Moore slathers a thick Southern accent on the empty chatter that fills up the life of a woman who can name all of Snow White's seven dwarfs, except Happy. Moore and Ashong's encounters sizzle, changing an innocent game of pool into the dangerous terrain it represents for both of them...