When Yusuf Hawkins, a Black 16-year-old, was shot and killed in Brooklyn in 1989 as he went to purchase a car, the crime set off months of angry protests. Now, the man convicted in Hawkins' murder, ...

The murder of a black teenager in a white Brooklyn neighborhood in 1989 made headlines and created a deeper divide in the city. Sixteen-year-old Yusuf Hawkins from East New York Brooklyn went to ...

In 1989, after a white mob attacked and killed a black teenager in Brooklyn, the Rev. Al Sharpton led black demonstrators down streets where angry whites confronted them, yelling obscenities and ...

Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn (9 p.m., HBO) - This original documentary tells the story of Yusuf Hawkins, a black teenager who was murdered in 1989 by a group of young white men in Bensonhurst, ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

Photo credit: Moses Stewart and Diane Hawkins grieve over the slaying of their son Yusuf Hawkins; Nicole Bengiveno/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images When Yusuf Hawkins, a Black 16-year-old, was ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In 1989, after a white mob attacked and killed a black teenager in Brooklyn, the Rev. Al Sharpton led black demonstrators down streets where angry whites confronted them, yelling ...