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"Judas and The Black Messiah" is a movie that needs to be experienced to truly comprehend the gravitas behind the material and it could not come at a better time.
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. Filmmaker Shaka King tells the true story of Hampton and Bill O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield), the car t...
The True Story Behind'Judas and the Black Messiah' Zoe Guy © Glen Wilson - Warner Bros. Shaka King's'Judas and the Black Messiah' tells the story of Fred Hampton, Bill O'Neal and the FBI's 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 Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); the NAACP; the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ...
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 potential to unify the masses. It was Hampton’s head which carried the thorny crown of equality and ...