HBO's 'Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn' is a devastating account of a racist tragedy
Yusuf Hawkins is a name everyone should know.
On August 23, 1989, 16-year-old Hawkins and three of his friends traveled from East New York to Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. The boys had plans to look at a car, a 1982 Pontiac for sale by the owner. When the four Black teenagers emerged from the subway into the largely white...