This past weekend marked the one year anniversary of the murder of intrepid Oakland journalist and martyr Chauncey Bailey.  Mr. Bailey was assassinated in a misguided attempt to silence his work on a compelling story about a corrupt business enterprise. 

I met Mr. Bailey one time in the early 1980's, when I was applying for a journalism fellowship program.  I was really shocked upon reading of his murder a year ago.  I was pulled in to his story when coming across the information that he was a devoted Catholic who favored the Latin Mass and attempted to attend Daily Mass as often as his life as a single father and work as a reporter/editor would allow.  If felt a definite kinship. I include Mr. Bailey and his surviving family in my thoughts and prayers over Oakland murder victims.

Click here to read my more extensive blog post on this story, and local media follow-up on the murder of Mr. Bailey and the extent of the criminality he was investigating at the time of his death.