On Friday, Feb. 12, Shaka King’s The Photograph and Donald Glover’s hit FX series Atlanta, playing the man who snitched on Hampton to the FBI—is rich in the creativity of Young Black Hollywood. One of the rising Black actors in this period piece is Algee Smith, star of HBO’s Euphoria and Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit. The 26-year-old plays Spurgeon “Jake” Winters, a member of the Illinois chapter Black Panther Party who, at 19, was shot and killed by the police. The Spurgeon Jake Winters Free People’s Medical Care Center, a free medical clinic for poor Black people living in Chicago, was run by the Black Panther Party, honoring what Winters meant to their movement. It’s a huge undertaking, even if Winters’ story isn’t that well-known, but with Smith wanting to work in a wide variety of films, he’s been honing his craft, waiting to sink his teeth into a role like this. “I want to do everything,” Smith shared. “I want to now play roles that edify us and that uplift us and that make us feel good and I can look and say, ‘Yo, if he did that, I can do that,’ or ‘That one film made me feel like I can do that.’ I want to do those types of roles.”