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FILM REVIEW: Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn

Thanks to Muta’Ali Muhammad’s thought-provoking documentary, Yusuf’s family, friends and supporters are no longer defined by the tragedy they experienced but by their successful fight for justice.

NNPA NEWSWIRE – On August 23, 1989, Yusuf Hawkins, a 16-year-old Brooklynite from East New York, traveled to the unfamiliar Brooklyn neighborhood of Bensonhurst with friends contemplating the purchase of used 1982 Pontiac. Unbeknownst to him the largely Italian/American community was hostile to Blacks. Some male teenagers misidentified him as an interloper there to meet a White homegirl, Gina Feliciano, and attend her birthday party.

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