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- The HBO Documentary film Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn which premiered August 12, 2020, directed by Muta'Ali Muhammad, "tells the story of how 16-year-old Yusuf was... killed on August 23, 1989, by an Italian mob in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, sparking protests and deep racial divide.
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Aug 13, 2020 · T he tragic events depicted in the documentary Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn call to mind headlines from 2020: a black man is shot to death by a white mob, precipitating months...
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On August 23, 1989, Yusuf Hawkins was fatally shot after being taunted and chased by a mob of white youths in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Hawkins' death was the third killing of a black male by white mobs in New York City during the 1980s; the other two victims were Willie Turks, who was killed on June 22, 1982, in Brooklyn, and Michael Griffith, who was killed in Queens on December 20, 1986.
Aug 13, 2020 · The HBO documentary “Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn” examines the 1989 murder of the titular 16-year-old in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and how far we have (or haven’t) come since.
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Aug 13, 2020 · The tragic events depicted in the documentary Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn call to mind headlines from 2020: a black man is shot to death by a white mob, precipitating months of...
Aug 11, 2020 · HBO is set to air the documentary “Yusef Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn,” Wednesday night and the film chronicles the death of a Black teen in the white neighborhood of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, in...
Aug 11, 2020 · An HBO documentary remembers the attack and murder of a 16-year-old Black boy at the hands of white teenagers and the surrounding racial conflict of 1980s New York.
