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...black candidate in a mayoral primary in any major city. Dinkins' victory was widely credited to his quiet, conciliatory manner, which many voters hope can heal the racial tensions in a city shaken by several racial incidents, most recently the murder of a black teenager by a gang of Brooklyn whites. "You gave this city something special," Dinkins told his cheering supporters last week. "You voted your hopes and not your fears...
...when a Black youth was killed allegedly by a gang of white teenagers in the predominantly white Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, everyone was shocked, but no one seemed really surprised...
...Bensonhurst killing was the catalyst for a series of demonstrations which provided more sensationalist material: some Black leaders marched through Bensonhurst and a handful of white Brooklynites shouted racial epithets at them. Several days later, thousands of demonstrators marched through Brooklyn and eventually clashed with police when they were not allowed to cross the Brooklyn Bridge...
COOKIE. English teenager Emily Lloyd brings an acute ear and a fetching presence to her role as a Brooklyn punkster in this comedy about a Mafia don (Peter Falk) with a score to settle and a wayward daughter to raise...
COOKIE. English teenager Emily Lloyd brings an acute ear and a fetching presence to her role as a Brooklyn punkster in this comedy about a Mafia don (Peter Falk) with a score to settle and a wayward daughter to raise...