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Commentary: Barack Obama and Chauncey Bailey

COMMENTARY – A confluence of thoughts hit me Monday: The Chauncey Bailey Project, the Oakland Tribune, the Pulitzer Prize, Oakland’s disturbing crime situation, Barack Obama, Paul Cobb, and the last time I saw Chauncey Bailey, one week before his killing. -Dave Newhouse, Bay Area News Group

Questions linger a year after Bailey slaying

Questions still linger surrounding the brazen murder of veteran journalist Chauncey Bailey as he walked down an Oakland street one year ago.

Paul Cobb

Paul Cobb is publisher of the Oakland Post, and Chauncey Bailey was his editor. Bailey was investigating the finances of Your Black Muslim Bakery, and related stories, including allegations of police corruption, when he was murdered not far from the Post’s offices in downtown Oakland on Aug. 2, 2007. In January 2008, Cobb came under [...]

Chauncey Bailey

Chauncey Wendell Bailey Jr., 57, was editor of the Oakland Post when he was gunned down as he walked to work downtown on Aug. 2, 2007. Police believe that the leadership or associates of Your Black Muslim Bakery were involved, because Bailey was probing the troubled organization’s finances and related matters. Devaughndre Broussard, a 19-year-old [...]

’60 Minutes’ show cuts quote that upset Post chief

Publisher Paul Cobb denies he was first to link Chauncey Bailey slaying to Your Black Muslim Bakery.
Staff Reports, Chauncey Bailey Project

Publisher disputes police statement on ’60 Minutes’

Publisher Paul Cobb denies police claim on 60 Minutes that he told them of bakery’s involvement in journalist’s murder.
By Thomas Peele and Lani Silver, Chauncey Bailey Project

Commentary: Publisher wants feds to probe Bailey killing

Oakland Post publisher calls for federal investigation into journalist’s murder.
Richard Prince’s Journal-isms

Commentary: End ‘no-snitch’ culture for sake of community

By Martin G. Reynolds, Editor, The Oakland Tribune THE CULTURE of anti-snitching has reached a new low. It has now even embroiled a well-known African-American businessman and his important institution, The Oakland Post. Earlier this month the Oakland Tribune ran stories about a plot to have Post Publisher Paul Cobb set up and killed. [...]

Commentary: Chauncey Bailey’s publisher reports death threat

Police place publisher Paul Cobb under protection.
Richard Prince’s Journal-isms

Post’s publisher gives IDs of men who threatened him to police

Oakland Post publisher Paul Cobb turned over to police the names of two bakery associates who another man claims offered him money to set Cobb up to be killed.
By Thomas Peele, Martin G. Reynolds and Mary Fricker, Chauncey Bailey Project