Search results
Aug 11, 2020 · ‘Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn’: Film Review. The HBO documentary 'Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn' revisits a 31-year-old hate crime that still shocks.
- Inkoo Kang
Yusuf Hawkins - Storm Over Brooklyn is an emotional and sensitive examination of racial tensions, grief and political point scoring that is ever present today. Full Review | Aug 20, 2020
87% Tomatometer 15 Reviews 71% Audience Score Fewer than 50 Ratings Racial tensions come to a boil when an angry mob murders Black teenager Yusuf Hawkins in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Aug. 23,...
- (15)
- Documentary
- Muta'ali Muhammad
Powerful documentary digs into tragic '80s hate crime. Read Common Sense Media's Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn review, age rating, and parents guide.
- Muta'ali Muhammad
- Joyce Slaton
- HBO Max, HBO
Aug 12, 2020 · On Aug. 23, 1989, a Black teenager named Yusuf K. Hawkins was fatally shot in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, after being surrounded by a group of white youths, an incident of race-related violence that...
- Muta'ali Muhammad
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.
People also ask
What happened in Yusuf hawkins'storm over Brooklyn'?
Is Yusuf Hawkins a good movie?
How does storm over Brooklyn relate to the Hawkins case?
Who was Yusuf Hawkins?
Aug 12, 2020 · Yusuf Hawkins’ death and the official response to it sparked outrage in New York, unleashing a torrent of racial tension and spurring tireless civil rights activism that exposed deep racial prejudices and inequities which continue to plague the country today.