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Until now, that is. Or so claims hyperactive computer salesman Trip Hawkins, who last week wowed a packed house at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas with a little black box he hopes will be the "format" -- what VCRs and video cassettes were to home video in the 1980s...
She is equally captivating in her more blatantly personal essays. "Women and Blacks and Bensonhurst" meditates on Harrison's hometown, the New York suburb where Yusuf Hawkins, a Black sixteen-year-old, was shot to death in 1989 by a group of Italian-Americans who thought he was dating a...
The town itself was and is small and slow. Because Clinton's father drowned in a freak accident before his birth, Bill's mother left him with her parents while she went off to New Orleans to become certified as a nurse anesthetist. Clinton's grandparents, Hardey and Mattie Hawkins...
In any case, blacks found cold consolation in the idea that many whites also disagreed with the acquittal of the policemen. To them, the white disapproval was pallid and ineffectual and showed little real understanding of their emotions. "Police terrorism is a form of oppression that black people intimately understand...
Do the Right Thing had critics predicting that the film would foment wildings by blacks against whites. Racial violence did erupt in Brooklyn's Bensonhurst neighborhood that summer, but the victim was a black man, Yusuf Hawkins, whose murder inspired Jungle Fever. "He was killed for supposedly coming to visit...