The biggest black weekly newspaper in Northern California expects to maintain alive its decades-long string of not lacking a publication date, although a burglar ransacked the constructing late Wednesday or early Thursday.
The Oakland Submit misplaced an estimated $15,000 in property and different damages in a housebreaking that left glass strewn all through the workplace, in accordance with enterprise supervisor Brenda Hudson. The suspect didn't get away with the information group’s desktop computer systems.
No one was injured. Writer Paul Cobb stated the weekly paper will go to press Thursday night time.
“We’re gonna get one out tonight if it’s the very last thing we do,” Cobb stated by cellphone Thursday afternoon. “We haven’t missed a publication date in 20 years.”
Hudson stated she walked by way of the workplace early Thursday and “what met me was a cascade of glass all within the hallway.”
Based on Hudson, Cobb’s uncommon coin assortment was taken. The newspaper additionally misplaced cameras, a radio scanner, an audio recorder and bank cards.
“My response is, ‘What else is new?’ ” Cobb stated. “We now have to seek out methods to get livable wage jobs for these guys out right here in Oakland, or we’re all gonna be subjected to this frequently.”
The burglar additionally broke into the non-profit group OCCUR and the Greenlining Institute, which each function out of the identical constructing. On Thursday afternoon, health-care present Blue Cross introduced that it could donate $20,000 to the Submit and one other $5,000 to the OCCUR group to assist each teams recuperate from the housebreaking.
Police have been investigating and had not made an arrest as of noon Thursday.
Hudson stated surveillance video confirmed a male on a motorbike along with his face lined by a masks and utilizing a motorbike breaking into the constructing. She additionally stated the information group will assessment safety measures to ensure its staff are protected.
The Oakland Submit is positioned close to a stretch of 14th Avenue just lately renamed after former Submit editor-in-chief Chauncey Bailey, who was assassinated in 2007 after his reporting on Your Black Muslim Bakery angered chief Yusuf Bey IV.
“I’m shook up,” Cobb stated. “I’m not so shook up that I’m motivated to purchase a gun or arm myself, as a result of what good is that gonna do?”