SANTA BARBARA — Police here, responding to inquiries by The Chauncey Bailey Project, have reopened an investigation into the unsolved 1968 shooting deaths of a couple affiliated with a mosque that was the forerunner to Your Black Muslim Bakery.
By Bob Butler and Thomas Peele, Chauncey Bailey Project
For 30 years, authorities did nothing to stop Your Black Muslim Bakery patriarch Yusuf Bey’s abuse of women and girls, but it took Oakland police officer Jim Saleda less than three months to get him arrested.
By Mary Fricker, Bob Butler, A.C. Thompson, G.W. Schulz, Cecily Burt, Chris Metinko, Thomas Peele and Josh Richman, Chauncey Bailey Project
Bakery leader Nedir Bey got matching funds for his council run, but he didn’t document his spending.
By Cecily Burt and G.W. Schulz, Chauncey Bailey Project
While Your Black Muslim Bakery founder Yusuf Bey enjoyed unwavering community support, his spiritually adopted son Nedir Bey shamed city leaders into giving him a $1.1 million loan.
By Cecily Burt, G.W. Schulz, Judy Campbell, Thomas Peele, Josh Richman and Bob Butler, Chauncey Bailey Project
In the 17 months before the slaying of journalist Chauncey Bailey, Oakland police responded to at least four incidents of violence involving members of Your Black Muslim Bakery, but no arrests were made.
By A.C. Thompson, Thomas Peele, Cecily Burt, Josh Richman, Bob Butler and Mary Fricker, Chauncey Bailey Project
Numerous investigations of people who lived and worked at Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland were under way at the time Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey was killed.
By Josh Richman, Chauncey Bailey Project
Chauncey Bailey woke up Aug. 2 with no premonition that today would be his last day.
By Angela Hill, Roland De Wolk, A.C. Thompson and Cecily Burt, Chauncey Bailey Project
Berkeley police have re-opened the unsolved case of a Your Black Muslim Bakery employee found shotgunned to death 25 years ago.
By Josh Richman and Kristin Bender, Chauncey Bailey Project
Questions are being raised over whether 21-year-old with criminal history played a role in the Bailey killing.
By A.C. Thompson, Thomas Peele and Paul T. Rosynsky, Chauncey Bailey Project
Did real estate fraud help build Your Black Muslim Bakery into an enterprise worth killing for?
By Thomas Peele, Josh Richman, A.C. Thompson, G.W. Schulz, Bob Butler, Lisa Pickoff-White, Robert Lewis, Nick Kusnetz, Vianna Risa Davila, Marnette Federis and Lucie Schwartz, Chauncey Bailey Project
New America Media and the Maynard Institute have convened an array of Bay Area journalists, as well as highly respected media organizations and local university journalism departments, to form an investigative team to honor and continue the work of journalist Chauncey Wendell Bailey Jr. [more]
