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Kenzie Smith, community leader of Oakland’s ‘BBQ Becky’ fame, dies at 43

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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 figure, he co-founded and helped run Dope Era Magazine, a publishing arm of the clothing brand established by Oakland hip-hop icon Mistah F.A.B., who is Smith’s half-brother. Smith’s role in the infamous BBQ Becky incident in 2018 — in which the woman ca…

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