Yusef Hawkins
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Robert David Jaffee: You're No David Dinkins...group of black teens, answering an advertisement for a used car, arrived in a white enclave in Brooklyn only to have one of them, Yusuf Hawkins, gunned down. After all these wounds, the city needed an African-American to heal it. In this article: David Dinkins, Barack Obama, New York City, Ed Koch, Bonfire of the Vanities, Hillary Clinton, Joe Wilson, and Rainbow/PUSH |
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Root Magazine | June 24, 2009
The Music in Spike's Message
...and Michelle Robinson, two Ivy League professionals going on their first date.) The film seemingly anticipated the 1989 murder of Yusef Hawkins, a black Brooklyn youth who was shot in an Italian-American neighborhood of Bensonhurst, and...
In this article: Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, Fight the Power, Rosie Perez, Brooklyn, New York City, Ivy League, Fruit of Islam, Lycra, and National Review
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Racial Tension and Division in Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing, help us understand race. and class divisions in American society in the ... young black man named Yusef. Hawkins. By the time the film was in ...
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Do the Right Thing. Directed by Spike Lee ... of whites in Bensonhurst, Queens murdered a young black man named Yusef Hawkins. ...
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Film Notes -Do the Right Thing
There Yusef Hawkins, a 16 year-old Black youth, was murdered by white youths in ... Instantly, Do The Right Thing was a cause celebre, more breathlessly (and ...
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... Hop was always a revolutionary tool from the very beginning but Do the Right Thing ushered in an era that visually showed ... American youth, Yusef Hawkins. ...
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Collegian Editorial - Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1989
The tragic, racially-motivated death of 16-year-old Yusef Hawkins in Bensonhurst, ... Do the Right Thing challenges viewers and may make some viewers feel ...
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November 28, 2006 XIII: 13 DO THE RIGHT THING (1989) 120 min
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'Do the Right Thing' brings important message
In Do The Right Thing this sequence involves characters of different ethnic ... and this fear which led the Bensonhurst thugs to murder Yusef Hawkins last month. ...
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Yusef Hawkins (also spelled as Yusuf Hawkins) was a 16-year-old African American youth who was shot to death on August 23, 1989 in Bensonhurst, a working-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Hawkins and three friends were attacked by a crowd of 10 to 30 youths, with at least seven of them wielding baseball bats. One, armed with a handgun, shot Hawkins twice in the chest, killing him.
Hawkins had gone to Bensonhurst that night with his three friends to inquire about a used 1982 Pontiac automobile that was for sale. The group's attackers had been lying in wait for black or Hispanic youths they believed were dating a white neighborhood girl. Police later said Hawkins was not involved with the girl.
Hawkins' killing was the third killing of a black man by mobs in New York City during the 1980s; the other two victims being Willie Turks who was killed on June 22, 1982 in Brooklyn and Michael Griffith who was killed in Queens on December 20, 1986. The incident uncorked a torrent of racial tension in and around New York City in the ensuing days and weeks, culminating in a protest march through the neighborhood led by the Reverend Al Sharpton, which almost precipitated a full-scale riot.
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