Yusuf Bey first obtained a cosmetology degree and ran beauty salons in neighboring Berkeley and then in the southern city of Santa Barbara before going into the bakery business instead.
16 Facts About Yusuf Bey
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The baked goods Yusuf Bey sold were in accordance with strict Muslim diets and free of refined sugar, fats, and preservatives.
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Yusuf Bey named the business Your Black Muslim Bakery on the personal recommendation of his spiritual guide, the Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad.
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Yusuf Bey became the Secretary of the mosque and his brother was the minister.
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Around that time the two Yusuf Bey brothers associated with a single young woman named Capt.
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Minister Henry retaliated by ordering his members to confiscate any copies of the newspaper if they saw any of Yusuf Bey's group selling them downtown to whites.
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Yusuf Bey repeated the NOI doctrine of Yakub, which teaches that the non-black races are the result of a 6,000-year-old genetic experiment conducted in a mythic black utopia on the Arabian peninsula, which "peopled the world with "blue-eyed devils.
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In 1994, Yusuf's son Akbar Bey was shot four times and killed by a local drug dealer associate outside the old Omni nightclub near the corner of Shattuck Avenue and 50th Street.
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Court records showed the pathologist's conclusion that Akbar Yusuf Bey was high on heroin or morphine at the time of his death.
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Three months before his killing, Akbar Yusuf Bey had been charged with felony counts of carrying a concealed weapon and evading the police, resulting in a car chase and crash at 44th Street and Market Street.
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Primarily through lobbying and orchestrating by Nedir, who was the public face of the Bey organization, Yusuf Bey cultivated the patronage of Oakland's civic, political, and religious leaders.
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On September 30,2003, before trial began on the first case, Yusuf Bey died from cancer at the age of 67 in Oakland, California.
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Bey's son Yusuf Bey IV has been the subject of a series of civil claims and criminal investigations.
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In 2011, Yusuf Bey IV was convicted of ordering three murders, including the murder of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey, and was sentenced to life in prison.
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Yusuf Bey worked as a cameraman, filming his father's weekly television program True Solutions.
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Yusuf Bey's body was shipped to Oakland, California and due to the nature of his head trauma, the family had a closed casket ceremony.