In April, a video of an unidentified white woman calling the police because she saw two Black men using barbecue grills at a public park in Oakland, California, went viral. Since then, the internet ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Hundreds of East Bay neighbors gathered in Oakland Sunday to turn a negative into a positive more than a year after the so-called "Barbecue Becky" incident. Organizers hope ...

OAKLAND (CBS SF) -- They came by the thousands to Lake Merritt, spending a Sunday afternoon, enjoying the sunshine, a good meal prepared on the barbecue and making a statement of protest. The ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- The "BBQ'ing While Black" event is coming back to Oakland next week. The inaugural event was held last year after police were called to respond to two Black men having a ...

A massive crowd of people gathered yesterday for BBQing While Black, an event held at the same Oakland, California, park where a white woman called the police on a black family during a cookout. In ...

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OAKLAND, Calif. - The grassy lawn along Lake Merritt turned into a massive cookout Sunday, in an event aimed to show that Oakland is a city that welcomes diversity and is a place where all bigotry ...

OAKLAND — Hundreds of people flocked to the grassy banks of Lake Merritt on Sunday afternoon to BBQ, dance, relax — and make a political statement about racism and belonging. They were there for the ...