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US-based music icon, Derrick Ashong launches "Take Back The Mic" to promote African talent "ontopnaija

US-based music icon, Derrick Ashong launches “Take Back The Mic” to promote African talent “ontopnaija

US-based music icon, Derrick Ashong is launching Take Back The Mic to promote African talent.

Global – Founder and CEO of AMP Global Technologies, Derrick N. Ashongbuilt a platform that empowers people, through a digital “ecosystem” that empowers content creators to own their own narrative and connect directly with fans around the world. Constantly breaking down barriers and redefining his own…

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[howtobeblack]

Heads up: my friend Derrick Ashong works for Fusion (new tv network focused on US Latino market). He interviewed George Zimmerman. First black tv journo to do so. Video posts to http://fusion.net at midnight ET tonight. I'm not a big fan of giving wack people stage time but Derrick is a smart and good person and I think this will be worth seeing

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Media Moves: Fusion Cancels First Show

In a January 17 report by Media Moves, Fusion, a new network formed out of a highly publicized…

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An African Election: Premiere Night!

Though there may not have been a red carpet or champagne bottles popped, but Racialicious and National Black Programming Consortium's (NBPC) AfroPoP.TV celebrated the PBS premiere of Jarreth Merz's An African Election in fine live-tweeting style.

We had a lively interaction with not only WGBH's Celeste Headlee and the panelists-- including director Jarreth Merz, multimedia broadcaster/commentator Derrick Ashong, VivirLatino owner and Univision writer Maegan Ortiz, and commentators Lenny McAllister and Stacy Washington--thanks to our many tweeters, like commentator Scot Nakagawa, the R's Tami Winfrey Harris, writer Kenyon Farrow, and scholar Dr. Regina Bradley.

Then, the movie started and the comments flowed. 

And we Storified the event for posterity! Check out what folks said during the panel discussion and the movie here.

A bouquet of gratitude to everyone who supported the buzz for last night's premiere! 

[parmajean]

...I don't have to hate anyone in order to give myself an identity.

Derrick Ashong

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[Black people in America] have literally been the physical embodiment, the manifestation of the ideals that the Founding Fathers said they believed in, thought they believed in. But they didn't exist until us. That's something to be proud of.

Derrick Ashong, How to Be Black

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Derrick Ashong 

"An animated film based on the song "Love Rain Down" from the album "AFropolitan" by Derrick N. Ashong (aka DNA) & Soulfège. The movie follows the tale of a little boy named "Johnny" who makes a trip to the legendary "Crossroads" of Robert Johnson fame, and stands down the Devil armed only with a song."

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Derrick @Ashong of @AJStream makes me want to put on the soundtrack to Shaft and make similarly worded bigoted statements. Rawr.