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Feminist, Activist, former Young Lords Party and Black Panther Party member, applied cultural anthropologist

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Diaries published: 796 (4 days since last diary on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 05:36 AM PDT)

Comments posted: 88263 (0 days since last comment on Fri Jun 09, 2017 at 07:47 PM PDT)

Diary frequency: frequent

Comment frequency: frequent

Total Recommends: 122806

Total Comment Ratings: 255627

Most Recommended Diary: My response to David Brooks in the NYT, 804 comments, 1634 recommends

People Following Denise Oliver Velez: 1570

Denise Oliver Velez's Most Recent Diaries:

White woman running for office on Long Island calls black neighbors the N-word
When people hear “Long Island” or “The Hamptons,” they rarely have a visual image of black or Native American communities. Yet Long island has very old communities of color, and people who have lived in them for many generations.  The residents of...
by Denise Oliver Velez
Comment Count 464 comments on Tue Jun 06, 2017 at 05:36 AM PDT with 195 Recommends
Dear white Trump voters with an opiate addict in the family: Your president embraces this dude
This is directly addressed to white people who voted for Donald Trump, since much of the focus of his purported “sympathy” listening session with families who have lost a loved one due to the current opioid overdose crisis targeted white America. If...
by Denise Oliver Velez
Comment Count 346 comments on Sun Jun 04, 2017 at 06:00 AM PDT with 276 Recommends
Not a "race riot," it was a massacre. The destruction of Black Wall Street, Greenwood, Tulsa OK 1921
The term “race riot” is used a lot — to mask the history of black Americans being massacred by rampaging whites. The “Tulsa race riot” as it is most often referred to is no exception.  Ebony magazine gave a more accurate depiction in “The...
by Denise Oliver Velez
Comment Count 502 comments on Wed May 31, 2017 at 05:36 AM PDT with 300 Recommends
The first Memorial Day site is in a park named for Confederate General Wade Hampton III
For Memorial Day today, I had planned to simply republish “T he Memorial Day history forgot: The Martyrs of the Race Course. ” which tells the story of the first Memorial Day, which took place ...
by Denise Oliver Velez
Comment Count 96 comments on Mon May 29, 2017 at 09:20 AM PDT with 99 Recommends
They fought and died for freedom: Black soldiers in the U.S. Civil War
Memorial Day weekend is upon us and as we prepare to attend ceremonies for members of the U.S. military who died in service to this country, I want to salute those black men and women who fought so that my people could gain their freedom. Black...
by Denise Oliver Velez
Comment Count 272 comments on Sun May 28, 2017 at 06:01 AM PDT with 269 Recommends
Fleeing from swastikas in Germany, they found refuge at HBCUs in the Jim Crow south
With the news that the orange ignoramus in the White House recently questioned the constitutionality of federal funding for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), and after Bethune-Cookman University students stood and turned their backs...
by Denise Oliver Velez
Comment Count 233 comments on Sun May 21, 2017 at 06:01 AM PDT with 278 Recommends

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