Episode 60 - August 23, 1989

On August 23, 1989, a four young black men were surrounded by a mob of white men in an attack that left one of the black teenagers dead. Was it a racist attack or a love triangle? (It was racist.) We also talk about video rental stores (?), the panic of parenting, and Ashley schools us on Cleopatra. Follow us on social media! Sources:  https://time.com/5879097/yusuf-hawkins-storm-over-brooklyn-racism/ https://allthatsinteresting.com/yusuf-hawkins https://www.oxygen.com/true-crime-buzz/what-happened-to-joseph-fama-convicted-yusuf-hawkins-killer https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1120793.html https://murderpedia.org/male.F/f/fama-joseph.htm https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/joey-fama-prison-1989-murder-wasn-shooter-article-1.1906301 http://brooklynink.org/2012/12/10/50766-convicted-killer-writes-to-reporter/ https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2021/03/20/yusuf-hawkins-street-renaming-brooklyn-bed-stuy-bedford-stuyvesant-verona-place-fulton-street-new-york-city Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brookyn. (2020) HBO https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/25/arts/music/paddy-duke-yusuf-hawkins.html https://indypendent.org/2022/07/did-the-nypd-bungle-the-yusuf-hawkins-murder-case/