4-9-08
OAKLAND — On a June night in 1986, Peter August Kaufman was shot to death while sitting in the passenger seat of a friend's van in North Oakland.
The Chauncey Bailey Project has uncovered a link between Kaufman's killing and Yusuf Bey, the late founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery.
In response to queries from reporters with the project, the Alameda County District Attorney's Office is examining new evidence about Kaufman's murder.
3-25-08
SANTA BARBARA _ Police here, responding to inquiries by the Chauncey Bailey Project, have re-opened an investigation into the unsolved 1968 shooting deaths of a couple affiliated with a mosque that was the forerunner to Your Black Muslim Bakery.
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2-10-08
The two sisters who triggered sex crime charges against Oakland bakery owner Yusuf Bey in 2002 had tried in the early 1980s to get help from social workers, but fear kept them from speaking forcefully about the abuse and the social workers didn't pursue the matter, an investigation by the Chauncey Bailey Project has revealed.
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The “Chauncey Bailey Project” was officially launched on October 10, 2007 to continue the investgative work of Oakland Post editor Chauncey Bailey, gunned down as he walked to work August 2nd. BABJA and NABJ are joining reporters, editors, researchers and students from 19 journalism organizations and journalism schools that are taking a thorough look at the police investigation and also at Your Black Muslim Bakery, which employed the man accused in Bailey's murder.
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