February 11, 2005
Activist to Speak on Legacy of Black and Latino Social Movements
 Denise
Oliver-Velez, former member of the Black Panther Party and the
Young Lords Party, will give a talk titled "The Legacy of
Black and Latino Social Movements in the 60s," on February
24, 7 pm in Dwight 101. Oliver-Velez is now an anthropologist
teaching at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She
continues to be engaged in community and political projects. This
event, sponsored by the African American and African Studies Program,
the Department of Politics, and the Community-Based Learning Program,
is free and open to the public.
Oliver-Velez
is an ethnographer and data analyst for two AIDS research projects;
chairperson of WEMBA, a group of artists and activists based in
Ulster County, New York; and a priest of Yemaya in the Lucumi
Yoruba faith, according to the AfriGeneas Web site. In past years,
she has served as the executive director of the Black Filmmaker
Foundation, program director of WNYC-TV, program director and
cofounder of WPFW-FM Pacifica radio, and grants manager for the
minority and women's training grant program of the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting. She served as the minister of economic
development and the first woman on the central committee for the
Young Lords Party, which was active in the 1960s and 1970s and
dedicated to the liberation of Puerto Rico and other issues connected
with the Puerto Rican community in the U.S.
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