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Michael Griffith (March 2, 1963 – December 20, 1986) was a 23-year-old black man who was killed on December 20, 1986, in Howard Beach, in Queens, New York City, in a racially motivated attack. [1] Griffith and two other black men were set upon by a group of white youths outside a pizza parlor. Two of the victims, including Griffith, were ...
The acquittal of Mondello on the most serious charges led to further protest marches through Bensonhurst led by Al Sharpton. [10] On June 11, 1990, sentences were handed down in the Hawkins case. Nineteen-year-old Fama received a sentence of 32⅓ years to life in prison. Mondello, also 19, received a sentence of 5⅓ to 16 years in prison. [11]
Linguist Ben Zimmer writes that use of the slogan "No justice, no peace" during protests goes back as far as the 1986 killing of Michael Griffith. [1] Griffith, a Trinidadian immigrant, and three friends, all black, were assaulted by a mob of white youths in the Howard Beach, Queens, New York City.
Howard University undergraduate students have reached an agreement with the historically Black college’s administration to end a 34-day protest against
Newly-discovered evidence indicates the NYPD, based on a controversial DNA procedure, launched an unfair “racial dragnet” targeting Black males after the 2016 Howard Beach murder of a female ...
Howard University freshman Kymora Olmo has been camping out in a tent for more than two weeks to protest the conditions at some of the resident halls on campus.
Howard Beach is a neighborhood in the southwestern portion of the New York City borough of Queens.It is bordered to the north by the Belt Parkway and Conduit Avenue in Ozone Park, to the south by Jamaica Bay in Broad Channel, to the east by 102nd–104th Streets in South Ozone Park, and to the west by 75th Street in East New York, Brooklyn.
A week later, on December 27, Sharpton led 1,200 demonstrators on a march through the streets of Howard Beach. Residents of the neighborhood, who were overwhelmingly white, yelled racial epithets at the protesters, who were largely black. [27]