Film / 1990

Seven Days in Bensonhurst

Name: Seven Days in Bensonhurst
Genre: Documentario
Released: 1990-05-15
Duration: 58 min
Cast: Al Sharpton, Judy Woodruff, Shelby Steele

Regia Thomas Lennon

Documentario

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.