Lessons Learned from Brooklyn and Queen’s Contested Turfs We reflect on the greater issues of boiling tensions in NYC.
At the surface, various racial tensions of New York City in the past may appear to have been fragmented…
Tensions Boil in Brooklyn’s Bensonhurst It's 1989: a murder sheds a troubling light on the community.
Bensonhurst in 1989 was a town dominated by white Italians. Yusuf Hawkins was 16 years old and was new to…
The Summer of ’91: The Crown Heights Riots Making sense of the three most violent, racially-charged days
“It was the city’s worst racial violence since the outbreak that followed Martin Luther King’s assassination in 1968.” – Time Magazine…
We Begin Our Story on Contested NYC in Howard Beach Examining the issue of contested turf through acts of racial discrimination.
New York City has often been celebrated as the melting pot of the world: the place of coexistence between peoples…
