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Healed from the drug epidemic, Dogtown now fears the gentrification virus

West Oakland’s Dogtown neighborhood reckons with gentrification and a history of drugs.

By Serginho Roosblad on October 3, 2016

The black man’s alternate living room on the 4-5

Room to Groom is one of the barbershops in Oakland that caters to African-Americans and has managed to stay in business despite a 24 percent decline in Oakland’s black population between 2000 and 2010.

By Serginho Roosblad on September 26, 2016

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