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Harvard Law School currently has only one tenured minority woman, Gottlieb Professor of Law Elizabeth Warren, who is Native American. The racial makeup of the HLS Faculty has been an issue before as well: in 1989, Harvard dismissed Weld Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell after 18 years of teaching because the noted expert on race and law refused to end his leave in protest of the absence of minority women on HLS faculty...
...acclaimed author of the religious historyRighteous Discontentalso attended "Songs We Can't Sing," the musical written, starring and co-directed by Derrick N. Ashong '97-'98 that kicked off the Black Arts Festival on Friday night. She was visibly moved by the event, wiping tears from behind her glasses...
Boston's first-annual Black Arts Festival--an amalgamation of song, drama and guest speakers--kicks off tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall with a special performance of "Songs We Can't Sing," the original musical written and directed by Derrick N. Ashong...
...recent debate about the role of ethnic groups at Harvard, panelist Derrick N. Ashong '97 asked how many people in the audience were familiar with two cultures in addition to their own. He was prompting us to explore the events of campus ethnic organizations. But which culture could I say was my own? The Swiss culture of my relatives, the American culture I grew up in or my grandfather's Puerto Rican heritage? I am not familiar with each of these cultures although together they comprise my ethnicity. Do I have the responsibility to learn about all three of these...
...Mwangi, Derrick N. Ashong '97, Selamawi H. Asgedom '99, Thomas Z. Lukoma '98 and Iyesatta Massaquoi '99 performed dances, poetry and drama...