Is this the most radical film ever produced by Hollywood?
17 Feb, 2021 06:00 AM
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Daniel Kaluuya as Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah. Photo / Supplied
New York Times
By: Lawrence Ware
Judas and the Black Messiah is the rare Hollywood film to explore a vision of Blackness that has nothing to do with white audiences. Judas and the Black Messiah is a very good nearly great movie about charismatic Fred Hampton and the way the Black Panther Party was targeted by the United States government. Yet neither the standout performances from Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield nor the sensitive and insightful direction by Shaka King are the most remarkable aspects of the film: Not since Spike Lee s 1992 biopic Malcolm X has there been a mainstream American film this thoroughly Black and radical.
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Sixty-one years ago this month, four North Carolina A&T first-year students walked through downtown Greensboro and “sat-in” at the Woolworth s whites–only lunch counter and asked to be served. The students refused to leave even after they were denied service and stayed until the store closed. Behind the counter, 23-year-old Charles Bess was working at the restaurant as a busboy during the sit-ins. Bess is now 83 years old but still reflects on what happened in Woolworth s when he was a young man, and what he believes still needs to happen today. Every time when a waitress would tell them we don t serve colored people here, they ignored it and kept on sitting and asking for coffee, Bess recalled. I never heard them asking for nothing else but coffee. Everyone was looking at each other wondering what was happening. I was standing close by and I wondered what was going on? Bess was proud of what unfolded that day. Across the nation, there is another new generation of yo