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  1. 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
  2. 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

  3. 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,...

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    • Muta'ali Muhammad
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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.

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  8. 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.

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