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Judas and the Black Messiah Counters Decades of Lies About Black Panthers Tim Gray, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Aside from being well-made and effective as a movie, Warner Bros.’ “Judas and the Black Messiah” has a goal: to counter decades of government lies about the Black Panther Party. The party was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in 1966, and ceased operations in 1982. The film, which started streaming Feb. 12, centers on the 1969 murder of BPP leader Fred Hampton and his...

February is Black History Month and that history is intimately linked with surveillance by the federal government in the name of "national security."  Indeed, the history of surveillance in the African-American community plays an important role in the debate around spying today and in the calls for a congressional investigation into that surveillance. Days after the first NSA leaks emerged last June, EFF called for a new Church Committee. We mentioned that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was one ...

Fifty-six years after the assasination of Malcolm X, new details from a former New York Police Department officer’s deathbed confession has further im

Who Killed Fred Hampton? The True Story Behind Judas and the Black Messiah On 2/13/21 at 7:00 AM EST When viewers sit down to watch Judas and the Black Messiah on HBO Max, theyll get a very different look at the circumstances around the death of Fred Hampton, compared to how Chicago authorities originally characterized the 1969 raid that left the Illinois Black Panther Party chairman dead at age 21. Starring Daniel Kaluuya as the late Hampton (in a performance thats generating award-season att...

SNCC); and the Congress for Racial Equality ( CORE). While these associations generally pursued their goals through civil disobedience and the courts, it was the Black Panther Party that eschewed the establishment in favor of leftist community organizing, a focus on Black power, and military tactics. New film Judas and the Black Messiah, in theaters and on HBO Max Feb 12, follows the rise of Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), the head of the Illinois chapter of the party. F...

The True Story BehindJudas and the Black Messiah Zoe Guy © Glen Wilson - Warner Bros. Shaka KingsJudas and the Black Messiah tells the story of Fred Hampton, Bill ONeal and the FBIs conspiracy to take Hampton down. The struggle for Black liberation doesn’t begin and end with Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. In the 1960s alone, there were a number of organizations working to secure civil rights and economic justice for African-Americans–including MLK’s Southern Chri...

The Capitol raid, the Trump inauguration and COINTELPRO: Protest and "terrorism" Salon 2/7/2021 © Provided by Salon Capitol Riot; Trump Inauguration Pro-Trump protesters gather in front of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. | Protesters and supporters filter slowly through security onto the National Mall for the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017 in...

UpdatedMon, Feb 1, 2021 at 2:17 am ET Reply We as Afrikan people need to establish more independent Black media platforms in America to force the world to respect Black perspectives, especially the radical, progressive, socialist, communist, Afrocentric, Black nationalist, and Pan Afrikanist view. Because white supremacy has distorted one of American democracys most cherished civil liberties-the freedom speech. This fundamental principle in Americanism is not enjoyed by Afrikan people. We do no...

UpdatedTue, Jan 19, 2021 at 7:24 pm ET Reply(1) Donald J. Trump, the duly elected 45th President of the United States of America, helped to orchestrate a failed coup détat to stop democracy on January 6, 2021. Every four years, after the national US Presidential elections are over in November, the US government passes the electoral votes through the Senate in Congress to certify the winning presidential candidate as the official American President. This is Americas democratic process for the e...

By Bashir Muhammad Akinyele —W.E.B. Du Bois Donald J. Trump, the duly elected 45th President of the United States of America, helped to orchestrate a failed coup d’état to stop democracy on January 6, 2021. Every four years, after the national US Presidential elections are over in November, the US government passes the electoral votes through the Senate in Congress to certify the winning presidential candidate as the official American President. This is America’s democratic process for t...