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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 ...

Unaired segments of his 1990 Eyes on the Prize interview shed light on a conflicted man

There’s a shocking number near the end of “Judas and the Black Messiah” — 21. That’s how old Fred Hampton was when he was chairman of the Illinois Bl

Complete with gorgeous cinematography and stellar performances, King expertly crafts the film narrative in a way that is extremely relevant to contemporary conversation, while stressing the importance of humanization. In a roundtable discussion with college journalists, the main actors of “Judas” each shared their experiences working on the fil...

The Warner Bros. film 'Judas and the Black Messiah' tells the story of the 1969 murder of Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton Jr