Archive for the ‘Your Black Muslim Bakery’ Category

Bakery bidding: Few takers for last Bey photos and posters

Published: Mar 26th, 2008
Category: Your Black Muslim Bakery

A U.S. bankruptcy court trustee auctions final bakery items for $285.

By Cecily Burt, Chauncey Bailey Project



Relics of bakery’s past go up for sale

Published: Mar 4th, 2008
Category: Your Black Muslim Bakery

Auction of bakery photos could help pay off Your Black Muslim Bakery’s creditors.
By Josh Richman, Chauncey Bailey Project



Change under way at former bakery building

Published: Feb 13th, 2008
Category: Your Black Muslim Bakery

Bakery site is being transformed into center for people battling HIV and AIDS.
By Cecily Burt, Chauncey Bailey Project



Profiles of abuse

Published: Feb 11th, 2008
Category: Your Black Muslim Bakery, Yusuf Bey

Five women accused Yusuf Bey of abuse.
By Mary Fricker, Chauncey Bailey Project



A chronology of abuse

Published: Feb 11th, 2008
Category: Your Black Muslim Bakery, Yusuf Bey

Women and girls accused Yusuf Bey of sexually and physically abusing them from 1968 to 2002.
By Mary Fricker, Chauncey Bailey Project



Women, Part I: One police officer cracked case against Yusuf Bey

Published: Feb 11th, 2008
Category: Investigative reports, Your Black Muslim Bakery, Yusuf Bey

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



Women, Part II: Testimony reveals a life of abuse, toil for women of Your Black Muslim Bakery

Published: Feb 11th, 2008
Category: Your Black Muslim Bakery, Yusuf Bey

Life for women was harder than has generally been known at Your Black Muslim Bakery.
By Mary Fricker, Bob Butler, Cecily Burt, Thomas Peele, Josh Richman, A.C. Thompson, G.W. Schulz, Chauncey Bailey Project



Fear kept abuse victims from seeking any help

Published: Feb 10th, 2008
Category: Your Black Muslim Bakery, Yusuf Bey

Two sisters reported Yusuf Bey’s abuse to social workers, but fear kept them from speaking forcefully and no action was taken.
By Mary Fricker, Bob Butler, A.C. Thompson, Cecily Burt, Thomas Peele and Josh Richman, Chauncey Bailey Project



Reports to authorities of abuse

Published: Feb 10th, 2008
Category: Oakland Police Department, Your Black Muslim Bakery, Yusuf Bey

Women said they made at least 10 complaints about Yusuf Bey’s sexual abuse that were ignored by authorities.
By Mary Fricker, Chauncey Bailey Project



Several Muslim bakery members linked to crimes

Published: Dec 9th, 2007
Category: Investigative reports, Your Black Muslim Bakery

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