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Stith, a 1979 graduate of the Divinity school who has worked in Boston-area churches for the past 11 years, warned the picnickers of ongoing racial polarization. He cited the 1989 murder of Yusef Hawkins in Bensonhurst, N.Y., and the letter bombs recently sent to NAACP offices as examples of...
Like the brutal rape of the Central Park jogger and the murder of Yusuf Hawkins in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn last year, Watkins' death quickly assumed a larger symbolic meaning. Outside the city it confirmed what most Americans already believed: New York is an exciting but dangerous place. Among...
When Shelby Steele heard about the racially motivated murder of 16-year-old Yusuf Hawkins in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn last August, his first reaction was fear -- the same fear he used to feel as a young black boy growing up in Chicago in the 1950s. There was, he...
-- Thornburgh has angered the civil rights community with a strong stance against the pending Kennedy-Hawkins legislation, which would make it easier to prove job discrimination. Calling the measure a "quota bill," he has refused to compromise on his opposition to language that would give women and minorities the right...
The question now facing the city was what, if anything, could avert a plunge into deeper turmoil. Less than five months after he was sworn in as New York's first African-American mayor, Dinkins was confronting severe strains in the multiracial society he likes to call the "gorgeous mosaic...