Dozens of people gathered at Oakland's Lake Merritt on Sunday to mark the anniversary of the so-called "Barbecue Becky" event in which a woman called police on black men barbecuing near the lake.

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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 ...

It’s been a little more than a year since the world was first introduced to “BBQ Becky” right here in the Bay Area. It all started with a barbecue at Lake Merritt in Oakland. We first told you about ...

MADISON – State Representative LaKeshia Myers (D-Milwaukee) introduced legislation that would make it a crime to unlawfully summon a law enforcement officer. The bill, introduced Dec. 20, would charge ...

OAKLAND — Kenzie Smith, a Black community leader in Oakland whose 2018 run-in with a white woman shed light on the country’s racial tensions, died over the weekend. He was 43. A well-known local ...

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