In the summer of 1989, less than two months after the release of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, 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.
Sixteen years old, Hawkins 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.
Outrage over Hawkins' murder fueled at least a dozen marches — protests that so enraged the Italian-American community that one Bensonhurst resident stabbed a prominent leader of the marchers, the Reverend Al Sharpton.
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