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 ...

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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, 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 ...

With industry sales seemingly stale and the stock price of its longtime competitor, Beyond Meat (BYND), in the tank, Impossible Foods is now thinking that a much-bantered-about IPO may not be the best ...

(CNN)Hundreds danced to hip-hop and '80s soul music Sunday and listened to local African-American candidates make their pitches. But this cookout in Oakland, California, wasn't just any spring ...