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.

At a Wednesday evening block party, the intersection of 57th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way will officially be renamed Bobby Seale Way .

Bobby Seale himself will be in attendance at the event, which runs from 5 p.m.–7 p.m. and is open t

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