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Denise Oliver-Velez is an American professor, Contributing Editor, activist, community organizer and trailblazing rebel for women’s rights.
Born Denise Roberts Oliver on August 1, 1947, in Brooklyn, NY.
Her father was an actor, a professor of Dramatic Literature, and a Tuskegee Airman.
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Her mother was a teacher in the New York City school system.
Oliver-Velez was a member of both the Young Lords Party and the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Young Lords was originally a Chicago-street gang turned radical, Puerto Rican political organization in the late 1960s.
The organization’s mission was to fight for socio-political and community empowerment and liberation of Puerto Rico.
Oliver-Velez, along with others, challenged the Young Lords Party to end sexual discrimination and promote the full inclusion of women into the leadership positions in the group.
Her outspokenness and fierce leadership lead the Central Committee of the Young Lords to ap