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A basketball group in Bensonhurst is trying to prevent a Trayvon Martin-like tragedy one dribble at a time.
Activist Maurice Ballard launched the Trayvon Martin Basketball Tournament Saturday - and specifically set it in the neighborhood where black teen Yusef Hawkins was killed by a white mob in 1989.
"Racism may never get cured," said Ballard. "But Bensonhurst is the place where we can start to make a difference."
On Saturday, kids came dressed in hoodies to mark Martin's death and to protest the acquittal of his killer, George Zimmerman.
RELATED: NYC MAYOR HOPEFUL THOMPSON: CITY LIKE ZIMMERMAN WITH STOP, FRISKThe tournament brings together over 300 kids from the Marlboro and Coney Island Houses each week for the round-robin tournament at Scarangella Park.
Winning isn't everything - or even the only thing - at this tourney. The goal, said Ballard, is to bring together a diverse, yet still self-segregated, community that's 34% Asians, 13% Latino, 1% black, and the rest white.
"This is really about keeping Trayvon's memory alive," he said.
Trayvon Martin Basketball Tournament, Scarangella Park, Stillwell Ave., between Avenues U and V, Mondays, Thursdays, and Saturdays through Aug. 31, 4:30 to 7 p.m., for information, call (646) 770-5764 .
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