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Commemorative Plaque Marking Site of Assassination of Oakland Post Editor-in-Chief Chauncey Bailey Installed

The plaque, initiated by former Oakland City Councilmember, Lynette Gibson McElhaney, in 2019 on the 12th anniversary of Bailey’s death and erected 14 years after his death, is installed on a building at 14th and Alice Street in Oakland where Bailey was shot to death on Aug. 2, 2007, while walking to work at the Oakland Post where he was the editor-in-chief.

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3 years ago

August 19, 2021

Christy Price

Commemorative Chauncey Bailey plaque. Photo courtesy of Carla Dancer via Facebook

At the time, Bailey was working on a story about “Your Black Muslim Bakery.” Beneath the image of a smiling Bailey, the plaque inscription reads: “1949-2007 IN MEMORY OF CHAUNCEY BAILEY JR. WHO, WITH DIGNITY AND DEDICATION TO JOURNALISM, SERVED AS SOMEONE WHO PRIORITIZED THE VOICES OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN OAKLAND, CA.”

Thomas Peele, who was the lead investigative reporter on the Chauncey Bailey Project said in 2019, “Bailey needs to be fully recognized as the First Amendment martyr that he was.”

Devaughndre Brousard confessed to killing Bailey and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Yusef Bey IV, owner of “Your Black Muslim Bakery” and Antoine Mackey were convicted of ordering Bailey’s murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Post Publisher Paul Cobb said he was walking to work from the opposite direction to meet Bailey to discuss his plans to visit Vietnam when Bailey was killed.

Inspired by the spirit and enthusiasm for coverage of issues affecting the Black community, Cobb said the Post is still publishing 8 papers and will continue to expand its coverage by recruiting and training more youth interested in media and journalism.

Cobb added: “We are grateful for the city’s recognition of Bailey’s contribution, and we hope that the city actualizes its honor by fulfilling the mission of the Department of Race and Equity by directing the city’s various departments and the Port of Oakland to maintain their support for local Black businesses with advertising and increased public notice publishing. If Chauncey were alive, he would be writing investigative reports about the city’s claims of support to Black Business while simultaneously not providing grants to the media, especially the Post News Group, which more than any other local media, has done more to communicate and educate the citizens of this city about the dangers and solutions to the COVID-19 Pandemic.”

Mercurynews.com and Facebook were sources for this report.

The Oakland Post’s coverage of local news in Alameda County is supported by the Ethnic Media Sustainability Initiative, a program created by California Black Media and Ethnic Media Services to support community newspapers across California.

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A Safe Place, Bay Area Domestic Violence Community Organization, Opens New Service Center in Oakland

Oakland-Bay Area non-profit, A Safe Place, announces the grand opening of its newly purchased building in Oakland that will be a service center for families that have suffered from domestic violence. The new, two-story building has over six new service rooms for counseling, mental health support groups, legal services, children’s treatment, safe space for community engagement, and partnership activities.

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4 mins ago

May 4, 2024

Oakland Post

Façade of the new community center for A Safe Place opening on May 10 in Oakland. Courtesy photo.

By Courtney Slocum Riley

Special to The Post

Oakland-Bay Area non-profit, A Safe Place, announces the grand opening of its newly purchased building in Oakland that will be a service center for families that have suffered from domestic violence.

The new, two-story building has over six new service rooms for counseling, mental health support groups, legal services, children’s treatment, safe space for community engagement, and partnership activities.

Domestic violence occurrences and offenses account for a considerable amount of all violent crimes in Alameda County. A Safe Place is attempting to provide a safe place for families to heal. A Safe Place is the only comprehensive domestic violence assistance program including a safehouse, in Oakland.

The grand opening celebration will also serve as a fundraiser to build out healing, therapeutic spaces for children and adult victims and survivors and survivors of domestic violence (male and female).

The new service center will expand the work of the organization, founded in 1976 when a group of women working in San Francisco came together to address the urgent need for a shelter in the East Bay. A year later, they founded A Safe Place (ASP) in Oakland. Run solely by volunteers, they set up a crisis line to offer crisis counseling and information to battered women and their children.

The organization serves over 500 adults and children annually through a host of services including crisis counseling via 24-hour crisis line, emergency motel and safehouse sheltering, mental health services (counseling and support groups).

Under the leadership of Executive Director, Carolyn Russell, the organization has grown from a single program into the comprehensive domestic violence and assistance program. ASP strives to meet the growing and diverse needs of our growing community.

The organization hopes to complete all the upgrades and therapeutic room improvements by August 2024. The public is invited to donate to the effort by using the website at www.asafeplace.org/donate. The organization also accepts in-kind gifts as well as items from the organization’s Amazon Wishlist.

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Mario Van Peebles’ ‘Outlaw Posse’ Screened at Oakland’s Grand Lake Theatre

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15 mins ago

May 4, 2024

Oakland Post

Film director Mario Van Peebles, who also stars in “Outlaw Posse,” appeared at a press conference held at RBA Creative on MacArthur Boulevard hosted by the Oakland International Film Festival. Photo By Carla Thomas.

By Carla Thomas

The Oakland International Film Festival hosted a screening of “Outlaw Posse” at the Grand Lake Theatre on Monday. Special guests included director/actor Mario Van Peebles and his co-star, Oakland native Scytorya Rhodes. The film is Peebles’ second western, the first being ‘Posse,’ 13 years ago. Filmmaker Van Peebles shared his passion for independent artistry and producing projects with his son, Mandela, who also starred in the film, along with Whoopi Goldberg and Cedric the Entertainer. Next week, The Post will publish an in-depth interview featuring Peebles’ reflections on his work, future projects, and continuing his father’s legacy and Rhodes on her grandfather, a real-life cowboy.