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 ...

On Sunday, Oakland residents fired up the barbecue grill in the park again, except this time the epic “BBQing While Black” event drew more than 1,500 participants in a bold response after a white ...

Oakland City Councilwoman Rebecca Kaplan has proposed that one of the men who had the cops called on him while barbecuing at Lake Merritt earlier this month serve on the commission that helps make ...

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) -- 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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...