Judas and the Black Messiah stars Daniel Kaluuya in tragic tale of FBI-orchestrated killing of civil rights leader Fred Hampton
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MarMarch 2021 at 7:50pm
Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out) has already won a Golden Globe Award and a Critics Choice Award for his portrayal of Fred Hampton.
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In March of 1968, J. Edgar Hoover issued a memorandum to the agents of COINTELPRO, a covert — and illegal — series of counterintelligence operations: "Prevent the rise of a 'messiah' who could unify and electrify the militant black nationalist movement."
Hoover's directive went on to caution that Martin Luther King Jr "could be a very real contender for this position".