Weston

Kevin Weston, a journalist at the Oakland Post and San Francisco Bayview and the youth communications director with New American Media, died at his Oakland home on Sunday following a two-year battle with a rare form of leukemia. He was 45.

“Rest in power, Kevin,” San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim said Wednesday before adjourning a meeting in his honor.

The Oakland Tribune, in its obit for Weston, said served as editor-in-chief of YO! Youth Outlook Magazine, executive producer of YO!TV and was a social justice activist, poet, youth advocate and hip-hop entrepreneur.

His writing had appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune and the Sacramento Bee.

In 2012, Weston was a John S. Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University.

Weston was also a founding member of the Chauncey Bailey Project, an investigative team formed after the August 2007 murder of journalist Chauncey Bailey Jr. Bailey was reporting on a story regarding the suspicious activities of the Your Black Muslim Bakery when we was slain on broad daylight in downtown Oakland. (Photo from the Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford.)