Remember Yusuf Hawkins, 20 Years After

People talk about the civil movement in the South
but there was a significant movement in the North...
It started in 1989 with Yusuf Hawkins.
-- Al Sharpton (Sunday, August 23, 2009)


Click the above photo, of Yusuf Hawkins (at or around age 16), to read the New York Times City Room blog on the 20-year anniversary of his Yusuf's death at the hands of a white mob in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.