Seven Days in Bensonhurst
- Media type
- Film
Seven Days in Bensonhurst · Seven Days in Bensonhurst · MOVIE
Documentary 1990
About this title
The 1989 murder of Yusef Hawkins by white youths in the Bensonhurst section of New York City set off a racial and political fire storm. On the eve of the first verdicts in the murder case, writer Shelby Steele returns to talk to the participants and tries to unravel the forces that propelled this racial crisis.