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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 betrayal by colleague (and FBI informant) William O’Neal. More from Variety “Judas,” direct...

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 of the targets of the very surveillance that eventually led to the formation of the first Church Com...

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, they'll 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 that's generating award-season attention), the film presents the Black Panther leader's death as the result of a concerted campaig...

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...