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On Wednesday, Oct. 22, the City of Oakland will celebrate the 89th birthday of Black Panther Party cofounder Bobby Seale with a formal proclamation of “Bobby Seale Day” and a commemorative street renaming.
Seale, who helped create one of the Unites States’ most well-known community activist groups of the 20th century, also ran for mayor of Oakland in 1973.
Seale was born in Liberty, Texas. His family moved to the Bay Area when Seale was a child, first residing in Albany’s Codornices Village before moving to North Oakland’s 57th Street…