Small children in East Oakland rarely play outdoors, where once they roamed free, because it is too dangerous.

Nearby streets were cordoned off, and an entire area of East Oakland was closed to traffic.

Many areas of East Oakland have been plagued by high crime in the postwar period and are known for violence and drug activity.

In the 1950s and 1960s, many areas of East Oakland remained predominantly white.

Hip hop culture is strongly associated with East Oakland.

There was then a movement of the dispossessed residents to East Oakland .

Anyone who passes by certain streets of East Oakland would know the drug dealers are back in force.

In East Oakland, the prevention program will focus on schools and parks.

Allendale is on what might be called the cinema archipelago of East Oakland.

He grew up poor with his mother (a secretary) and eight siblings in a small apartment in East Oakland.