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Bensonhurst

Today Is The 24th Anniversary Of The Death Of Yusef Hawkins

Mural of Hawkins in Bedford-Stuyvesant (Source: Wikipedia)Today is the 24th anniversary of the shooting death of Yusef Hawkins. At the time of his death, Hawkins was 16 years old. On August 23, 1989, Hawkins and three of his friends visited Bensonhurst to check out a car that was for

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Is Yusef Hawkins The Trayvon Martin Of Bensonhurst?

Yusef Hawkins (l) and Treyvon Martin (r)In the aftermath of Trayvon Martin’s death, many are left wondering how far our country has actually gone in terms of racial equality. Lee Sustar of the Indypendent [http://www.indypendent.org/] recently wrote about the 1989 Bensonhurt murder [http://www.indypendent.