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15. Juli 2020 · A deeply emotional film with chilling resonance in today’s America, Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn, explores the 30-year legacy of Yusuf’s murder as his family and friends reflect...
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- 1,3M
- HBO
Der HBO-Dokumentarfilm Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn erzählt die Geschichte des jungen Yusuf Hawkins, der 1989 von einer Gruppe weißer Jugendlicher umgebracht wurde. In der...
This film revisits the tragic 1989 death of an African American teen at the hands of an Italian mob in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Watch Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn online at HBO.com. Stream on any device any time. Explore cast information, synopsis and more.
Max. Watch Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn with a subscription on Max. Storm Over Brooklyn 's limited scope may disappoint viewers seeking a comprehensive examination of racial...
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- Documentary
- Muta'ali Muhammad
- New York in The 1980s
- Deeply Rooted Prejudices
- ‘We Should Have Learned from The Past’
The killing of Yusuf Hawkins in 1989 occurred during a tense moment in New York City history. The deaths of Willie Turks, in 1982, and Michael Griffith, in 1986, two Black men who were killed by white mobs, had shocked New Yorkers who might have thought their city was a liberal bastion of integration. That summer, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing had...
When Siegel decided to talk to students in the Bensonhurst community following the killing to interrogate their responses to the protests, he found that their prejudices were deeply rooted. He, along with the Black lawyer Galen Kirkland, began holding classes in the New Utrecht High School—which Joseph Fama, the gunman convicted of killing Hawkins,...
But the great time and effort Kirkland put into reducing prejudice makes him feel even more pained to see the continued violence and discrimination against Black people that has thrust the nation into a new era of protest. “Having worked so hard for so many years, to see where we are today is heartbreaking,” he says. “It’s clear that the change in ...
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- Andrew R. Chow,Mahita Gajanan
11. Aug. 2020 · Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn, a new HBO documentary, examines the firestorm that engulfed New York in the weeks and years after Hawkins’s murder: the series of protests,...
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn (2020) TV-MA | Documentary, Crime. Official Trailer. 'Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn' explores the 30-year legacy of Yusuf's murder as his family and friends reflect on the tragedy and the subsequent fight for justice that inspired and divided New York City.
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