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Now on HBO Max, it’s a stellar retelling of a vital historical moment.

Conceived partly by the Lucas Brothers and directed by Shaka King, Judas and the Black Messiah functions as an abridged biography of the Chicago civil rights leader Fred Hampton, told through the lens of the FBI informant and Black Panther party infiltrator William O’Neal Jr, played by Lakeith Stanfield. In the late 1960s, the party endured violent government suppression. Under the umbrella of Cointelpro, the FBI sought to prevent, neutralize and discredit a “Black Messiah” who had the po...

The Atlantic Judas and the Black Messiah Is an American Tragedy Shaka King’s crime thriller about a Black Panthers leader and the man who betrayed him is set in the 1960s but resonates today. Daniel Kaluuya as Fred Hampton and Lakeith Stanfield as William ONealGlen Wilson / Warner Bros. / Everett Collection Judas and the Black Messiah begins with William O’Neal (played by Lakeith Stanfield) getting ready for the only TV interview he ever gave about his role in the death of the Black Panther...

A challenging and unflinching look back at a dark moment in the Civil Rights movement, "Judas and the Black Messiah" tells a story crucial for our times.

Shaka King’s powerful film dramatizes the story of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton.

Warner Bros film “ Judas and the Black Messiah” tells the story of the 1969 murder of Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton. The film stars Daniel Kaluuya as the charismatic Hampton, and LaKeith Stanfield portrays FBI informant William (Bill) O’Neal, the man who infiltrated the Panthers and provided the layout to Hampton’s apartment where he was murdered while sleeping with his pregnant fiancé Deborah Johnson ( Dominique Fishback.) The film opens as O’Neal- a petty thi...

The main reason that so many people have to head to Google if asked who Fred Hampton was is that he died young, in a rain of gunfire perpetrated by the Chicago Police Department. Or, were they directed to kill him by J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI?

An electrifying film, Judas and the Black Messiah is based on the history of the FBI and Chicago Police Department’s involvement in the 1969 assassination of deputy chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party Fred Hampton. Under the direction of Shaka King, who co-wrote the movie with Will Berson (from a story by Keith and Kenneth Lucas) “Judas & the Black Messiah” gives viewers an inside look at the events leading up to the murder, while also reclaiming his story and memorializing him a...

click to enlarge Judas and the Black Messiah ★★★★ Dir. Shaka King, 126 min. HBO Max Warning: This review contains spoilers. As the same argument about reform plays in a loop, Judas and the Black Messiah is a reminder that there is no such thing as patient protest and that to combat targeted, intentional systems of oppression, it takes a revolution. Because as the real Fred Hampton so famously explained in a commonly quoted 1968 speech, it’s the revolution th...

When it comes to Black civil rights leaders in the 1960s, most of the historical and pop cultural focus has gone to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Th