An HBO documentary revisits a 31-year-old hate crime that still shocks. Read THR's film review for 'Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn' here:
, a dramatization of racial tensions between Black and Italian Americans in Brooklyn, Yusuf Hawkins was shot to death for being a Black boy in a white neighborhood just a few miles from the film's Bedford-Stuyvesant setting.was the victim of an impromptu mob in Bensonhurst that had gathered to attack another Black youth rumored to be dating an Italian-American girl.
Muta'Ali foregrounds the grief of the surviving Hawkins family members — a sensitive gesture that, unfortunately, seldom makes for riveting cinema.
Muta'Ali's strictly chronological approach does make more sense when recounting the twists and turns in the case, which would eventually encompass the Mafia's role in finding the fugitive Fama, the mayoral election between Ed Koch and David Dinkins and the critical role that one Black Bensonhurst kid played in accidentally helping the white kids he grew up with beat up the Black outsiders.
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