NYC remembers dark chapter of Crown Heights race riot
NEW YORK- A memorial and a march are among the commemorations marking the 25th anniversary of one of New York City's darkest chapters.
The 1991 race riot in the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn started after a black 7-year-old boy was hit and killed by a car in a rabbi's motorcade. Hours later, a Jewish doctoral student was stabbed to death. Four days of violence followed.
The neighborhood is holding a series of anniversary events Sunday as part of "One Crown Heights." One of the events, a festival, has been criticized by relatives of the Jewish student as being insensitive and trivializing what happened.
