This is another unique aspect of East Oakland. Before this it had been practically suburban, something still evidenced by the houses and street layout. Following the 1970’s, Deep East Oakland became known as home to some of the most notorious streets in California. You can still hear the Southern twang mixed into the accents of many residents of East and West Oakland.īut when the Southern Pacific railway went silent, so did many industrial jobs-factories like the regional facility for Granny Goose, and for Gerber, closed their doors as they did in so many places, leaving people without employment.

Many African Americans relocated to Oakland from the Southwest, in search of jobs with the railroad and other industries. Unlike these Northern cities, which integrated in unprecedented numbers as an aftermath of slavery, Oakland was part of California’s promised land.

Oakland is very different than Baltimore, and even Chicago, Philadelphia, and Detroit. Some of the best, smartest, and most compassionate television ever made, in my personal opinion. David Simon and Edward Burns, The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner City Neighborhood, pg 58.įor any of you HBO junkies out there, Simon and Burns are also the minds behind The Wire. lives without any obvious justification are given definition through a simple, self sustaining capitalism.” The men and women who live the corner life are redefining themselves at incredible cost, cultivating meaning in a world that has declared them irrelevant…. That’s where it all began, to be sure, but thirty years has transformed the corner into something far more lethal and lasting than a simple marketplace. “She enjoyed her patients,” her father told the magazine.“Get it straight: there not just out here to sling and shoot drugs. Ware was a student at Southern Union College in Alabama and worked as a home health care nurse, according to People.

“It just seems like a dream, like you’re going to wake up out of it,' Ware’s mother, Tvila, told WRAL. Now, Ware’s grief-stricken relatives are just trying to deal with her shocking death. went to the home of her father and had to deliver this news that his daughter was dead - that’s very terrible news to have to give to anybody, especially if it’s one of your children and grandchild,” Woodruff said, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. Dargan is being held at the Cumberland County Detention Center on a $2 million bond. He said it could be weeks before he is transferred to Troup County. Steward Smith told that Dargan is refusing to be extradited from North Carolina. Ellington said Dargan is married with other children, but is not the father of Ware’s other children, she said.ĭagan is charged with murder, feticide or death of an unborn child and possessing a firearm during the commission of a crime, Ellington said. It was later discovered that Dargan owned a 2000 Silver Nissan Altima and was in Troup County at the time of the shooting, Ellington said.ĭargan and Ware grew up together and went to school together, according to local news station WRBL. Investigators linked evidence from the scene to a silver Nissan. Investigators said Dargan was driving on the same road as Ware when she was shot.

They were in a relationship at the time of the shooting, Ellington said. Kelli Ellington with the Troup County Sheriff’s Office. He was the father of Ware’s unborn child, according to Capt. Alonzo Dargan Jr., 30, an active-duty soldier stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina has been arrested and charged with her murder.

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