Bay Area Black Journalist Association

The next BABJA membership meeting is 7pm on Tuesday, July 8th at KTVU, One Jack London Square in Oakland.

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Long-time CBS 5 anchor and BABJA co-founder Barbara Rodgers has retired after 29 years at the station. We owe her so much for helping found our organization and for showing all of us how to be a great journalist and an even better person.

Congratulations UC Irvine senior Adonica Shaw, San Francisco State senior Crystal Carter and Cal-State Eastbay senior Theresa Willis. They are going to the 2008 Unity courtesy of grants from BABJA.

AIDS 2031

Nearly 150 global and national medical, government, business, civic and social leaders took part in a public conversation on March 11, 2008 at San Francisco’s De Young Museum to address how HIV and AIDS impacts women, youth and people of color. The goal was to find ways to influence the face of the pandemic in 2031, 50 years after AIDS was first reported.

BABJA President Bob Butler says one of the main concerns addressed at the meeting was how to create messages that will effectively reach youth and the poor.

Challenges Facing the Black Press (by Crystal Carter)

Important issues such as the problems and triumphs facing Black newspapers and the rising number of black children in the foster care system were discussed at membership meeting of the Bay Area Black Journalists Association on Tuesday, February 12, 2008.

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June 18, 2008

By Thomas Peele, Bob Butler, Mary Fricker and Josh Richman, The Chauncey Bailey Project

Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV kept the gun used to kill journalist Chauncey Bailey in his closet after the attack, describes Bailey’s shooting in detail and bragged of playing “hella dumb” when investigators asked him about the shooting, according to a secretly recorded police video.

The video and scores of other documents and police recordings obtained by the Chauncey Bailey Project raise questions about Bey IV’s possible role in a conspiracy to kill Bailey, who was working on a story about the financially troubled bakery.

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4-9-08

In response to queries from reporters with the Chauncey Bailey Project, the Alameda County District Attorney's Office is examining new evidence in the murder of Peter Kaufman.

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

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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.

NABJ Senegal Slideshow

2007 BABJA Luncheon Slideshow

NABJ 2007

23 Supercentenarians gather in Sacramento.

The Keiskamma Altarpiece exhibit.