Mary Fricker

Mary Fricker, investigative journalist ; photo credit: Santa Rosa Press DemocratMary Fricker is an investigative journalist volunteering for the Chauncey Bailey Project. Fricker, an award-winning reporter, worked more than 20 years covering business for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. She has won the Gerald Loeb Award, the George Polk Award and, with investigative reporters Stephen [...]

Ali Saleem Bey

Ali Saleem Bey turned out to be the unidentified source for Chauncey Bailey’s investigation into Your Black Muslim Bakery’s finances. Days after the Oakland Post editor was gunned down on a downtown street in August 2007, Ali Saleem Bey stepped forward to shed more light on the story Bailey was working on. Known as [...]

Ronald Allen

Ronald Ronnell Allen drove a delivery truck for Your Black Muslim Bakery. He was 31 when his body turned up at Berkeley’s bayside dump in April 12, 1982. His head had been nearly blown off by a shotgun.

Berkeley police reopened the unsolved case in December 2007 in the wake of the slaying of Oakland Post editor Chauncey [...]