#‘Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn’ Trailer: HBO Documentary Examines Racially-Motivated Killing 30 Years Later
“#‘Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn’ Trailer: HBO Documentary Examines Racially-Motivated Killing 30 Years Later” On August 23, 1989, Yusuf Hawkins, a 16-year-old Black teenager from East New York, Brooklyn, was shot to death by a group of white youths from the predominantly Italian-American working-class neighborhood of Bensonhurst. The killing sparked outrage throughout the Black communities in New…