A former leader of the Black Panther Party has put the panther spirit behind an affordable housing project that broke ground Friday in West Oakland.

Community leaders, including former Black Panther Party leader Elaine Brown, turned the first dirt to symbolically break ground on an $80 million project consisting of 79 units at Seventh and Campbell streets.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.