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Ashong's time at Harvard has been full. Along with Kuumba and Black C.A.S.T., he headed the Black Men's Forum, ran track and served as president...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Ashong Trades Harvard's Yard for Spielberg's Set | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...never would have gotten the part had he not contacted Dream-works executive and former Kuumba member Cinque Henderson '94 last spring to discuss his prospects in the music industry...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Ashong Trades Harvard's Yard for Spielberg's Set | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Once he decided he wanted to pursue a career in the arts rather than in the operating room, he went about it diligently. He decided sophomore year that music might be easier for him to break into than film or television, so he began composing for Kuumba and its a capella arm, Brothers. He hooked a keyboard to his computer so he could compose electronically and carried a dictaphone around with him, in case inspiration struck him on the daily trek between the Quad and the Yard...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Ashong Trades Harvard's Yard for Spielberg's Set | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...black students organized a Journal of Afro-American and African Studies, founded the Kuumba Singers, lobbied for and opened an Afro-American Cultural Center on Sacramento Street and vigorously lobbied for a serious Afro-American studies department and for more black and female professors...

Author: By Kenneth E. Reeves, | Title: REMEMBERING 1972: LOOKING BACK ON HARVARD | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

...dining-hall groupings. I spent far too much time trying to figure out how to exempt the good white people while trying to assure the eternal damnation of the bad white people. I went from the Harvard Glee Club, Christ Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Chaplaincy to the Kuumba Singers, St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church and then thought that I should have applied to Morehouse College--where none of my time would have been spent teaching Harvard to understand the African-American experience...

Author: By Kenneth E. Reeves, | Title: REMEMBERING 1972: LOOKING BACK ON HARVARD | 6/3/1997 | See Source »

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