{"id":146010,"date":"2020-07-27T10:35:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T14:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=146010"},"modified":"2020-07-27T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T14:38:00","slug":"mutaali-muhammad-brings-the-tragic-story-of-yusuf-hawkins-death-back-to-life-with-yusuf-hawkings-storm-over-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/mutaali-muhammad-brings-the-tragic-story-of-yusuf-hawkins-death-back-to-life-with-yusuf-hawkings-storm-over-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Muta&#8217;Ali Muhammad brings the tragic story of Yusuf Hawkins&#8217; death back to life with Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-146012 alignleft\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 203 300'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/StormOverBrooklyn_KA-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The year was 1989, 16-year-old <strong>Yusuf Hawkins<\/strong> and friends went to an Italian-American neighborhood,-Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, to buy a used car. As they exited the 20th Avenue Train station, they encountered a group of white men, searching for black boys rumored to be dating women in their neighborhood. This led to the senseless murder of Yusuf and lynching of his friends.<\/p>\n<p>The lawless response of Yusuf&#8217;s untimely death infuriated New Yorkers, resulting in numerous peaceful protests and marches. The non-ending fight for justice, including commands of his family and city, pivotally inspired and eradicated New York City. Initiating a surge of racial tensions and intense activism Influenced the ballot being in favor of David Dinkins, the city&#8217;s first and only black Mayor removing Ed Koch.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_146015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146015\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-146015\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 226'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/storm03-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FEATURED IN IMAGE: Mural dedicated to Yusuf Hawkins in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn<br \/>Photo Credit: Courtesy of Hawkins Family \/ HBO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn<\/strong>, directed by <strong>Muta&#8217;Ali Muhammad<\/strong>, won the Feature Documentary Initiative presented by the <strong>American Black Film Festival (ABFF)<\/strong> and <strong>Lightbox<\/strong>. Coinciding their campaign to foster diversity in the feature documentary arena.\u00a0 The documentary\u00a0Unveils the brutal cycles and occurrences of injustice and systematic racism throughout America&#8217;s history that&#8217;s still relevant today. Watching will enthrall viewers by employing visuals of the past, viewpoints from a multitude of sources, and exhibiting state officials&#8217; depravity.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_146014\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146014\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-146014\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 158'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/storm02-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FEATURED IN IMAGE: (from left) Yusuf Hawkins, Amir Hawkins, Freddy Hawkins<br \/>Photo Credit: Courtesy of Hawkins Family \/ HBO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn<\/strong> unveils the brutal cycles and occurrences of injustice and systematic racism throughout America&#8217;s history that&#8217;s still relevant today. &#8220;This film ties together the past and the present showing how racism can rear its head anywhere, even in a liberal city.&#8221;<br \/>\n-director Muhammad<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_146013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146013\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-expand=\"600\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-146013\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns%3D'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg' viewBox%3D'0 0 300 169'%2F%3E\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/storm01-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FEATURED IN IMAGE: Yusuf Hawkins<br \/>Photo Credit: Courtesy of Hawkins Family \/ HBO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn Debuts August 12 at 9 pm ET\/PT on HBO available to stream on HBO Max.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yusuf Hawkings: Storm Over Brooklyn Debuts August 12 at 9 pm ET\/PT on HBO available to stream on HBO Max. <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/mutaali-muhammad-brings-the-tragic-story-of-yusuf-hawkins-death-back-to-life-with-yusuf-hawkings-storm-over-brooklyn\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":146016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,16,143],"tags":[2124,3953,2390,30193,30192,30191],"reaction":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-146010","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-first-looks","8":"category-news","9":"category-read","10":"tag-abff","11":"tag-documentary","12":"tag-hbo","13":"tag-mutaali-muhammad","14":"tag-yusuf-hawkings-storm-over-brooklyn","15":"tag-yusuf-hawkins"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Muta&#039;Ali Muhammad brings the tragic story of Yusuf Hawkins&#039; death back to life with Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn - blackfilm.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/mutaali-muhammad-brings-the-tragic-story-of-yusuf-hawkins-death-back-to-life-with-yusuf-hawkings-storm-over-brooklyn\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Muta&#039;Ali Muhammad brings the tragic story of Yusuf Hawkins&#039; death back to life with Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Yusuf Hawkings: Storm Over Brooklyn Debuts August 12 at 9 pm ET\/PT on HBO available to stream on HBO Max. 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