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Article: Find next leaders in the mirror, young black men told: Co-founder of Black Panthers in '60s speaks at OSU.
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- The Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH)
- Article date:
- February 2, 2007
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Byline: Sherri Williams
Feb. 2--Instead of mourning the absence of leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, young black men should look in the mirror for their next leader, a co-founder of the Black Panther Party said yesterday.
"Some of y'all should step up," said Bobby Seale, who helped start the militant group that popularized black power and that urged blacks to defend themselves against brutality and racism. "You are the leaders," he said. Wearing his trademark black beret, the graying Seale spoke yesterday with 22 black male students at Ohio State University about leadership tactics in the 1960s and today. Seale, 70, told ...