The ''Richmond Post'' is an
African American newspaper
African-American newspapers (also known as the Black press or Black newspapers) are news publications in the United States serving African-American communities. Samuel Cornish and John Brown Russwurm started the first African-American periodi ...
in
Richmond, California
Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was municipal corporation, incorporated on August 7, 1905, and has a Richmond, California City Council, city council. , featuring comics, world news, regional
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Go ...
news, local city of Richmond news, health, entertainment, and religious or "faith" sections in addition to an advertisements section. The paper has been printed and circulated since 1964. Published weekly, the paper is available in front of businesses throughout Richmond and neighboring
North Richmond.
The newspaper is headquartered in downtown
Oakland, California
Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast of the United States, West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third ...
. It is one of five local Post Newspapers published by the
Post News Group, along with the ''
Oakland Post'', the ''
Berkeley Tri-City Post'', the ''
San Francisco Post'' and the ''
South County Post''.
The Post News Group
, ''Oakland Post''.
On the morning of August 2, 2007, Chauncey Bailey
Chauncey Wendell Bailey Jr. (October 20, 1949 – August 2, 2007) was an American journalist noted for his work primarily on issues of the African American community. He served as editor-in-chief of '' The Oakland Post'' in Oakland, California, ...
(newly promoted to Editor-in-Chief of all five Post newspapers) was killed as he was walking to his office by a gunman at close range, in what police described as "an assassination".[
]
Witnesses said a single gunman wearing dark clothing and a ski mask
[
] approached Bailey, shot twice and ran away.
References
External links
Chauncey Bailey Obituary
African-American newspapers of California
Mass media in Richmond, California
Newspapers published in the San Francisco Bay Area
Weekly newspapers published in California
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