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Warner Bros film “ Judas and the Black Messiah” tells the story of the 1969 murder of Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton. The film stars Daniel Kaluuya as the charismatic Hampton, and LaKeith Stanfield portrays FBI informant William (Bill) O’Neal, the man who infiltrated the Panthers and provided the layout to Hampton’s apartment where he was murdered while sleeping with his pregnant fiancé Deborah Johnson ( Dominique Fishback.) The film opens as O’Neal- a petty thief – is arrested for impersonating an officer in a scam to steal cars. His arrest places him in th...

The main reason that so many people have to head to Google if asked who Fred Hampton was is that he died young, in a rain of gunfire perpetrated by the Chicago Police Department. Or, were they directed to kill him by J. Edgar Hoover and his FBI?

An electrifying film, Judas and the Black Messiah is based on the history of the FBI and Chicago Police Department’s involvement in the 1969 assassination of deputy chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party Fred Hampton. Under the direction of Shaka King, who co-wrote the movie with Will Berson (from a story by Keith and Kenneth Lucas) “Judas & the Black Messiah” gives viewers an inside look at the events leading up to the murder, while also reclaiming his story and memorializing him as an exuberant leader and revolutionary hero. David Kaluuya, who was nominated by the Oscars for his...

click to enlarge Judas and the Black Messiah ★★★★ Dir. Shaka King, 126 min. HBO Max Warning: This review contains spoilers. As the same argument about reform plays in a loop, Judas and the Black Messiah is a reminder that there is no such thing as patient protest and that to combat targeted, intentional systems of oppression, it takes a revolution. Because as the real Fred Hampton so famously explained in a commonly quoted 1968 speech, it’s the revolution that lasts. “You can jail a revolutionary, but you can’t jail a revolution,” he said about Bl...

When it comes to Black civil rights leaders in the 1960s, most of the historical and pop cultural focus has gone to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. Th