Tony Menelik Van Der Meer, PhD, is community activist, organizer, and teacher. He has served as president of the Boston Black Political Task Force (BPTF), and the Boston Pan African Forum (BPAF). He has been teaching for the past 25 years at the University of Massachusetts Boston where he is a Senior Lecturer in the Africana Studies Department. He was an African American Studies major during his undergraduate years at Northeastern University. He received his MS in Community Economic Development from the Graduate School of Business at New Hampshire College; and received his MA, and PhD in Leadership and Change from Antioch University. Van Der Meer is the Co-Editor of the book State of the Race, Creating Our 21st Century: Where Do We Go From Here? Foreword by Assata Shakur (2004), Diaspora Press.

* Professor Anthony Bogues presentation has been postpone and will be rescheduled.

Music by Fulani Haynes, vocals & Michael Shea, piano

The Community Church of Boston: A Peace and Justice Congregation Since 1920
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