Judas and the Black Messiah: Does the Black Panther Party Still Exist?
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Judas and the Black Messiah serves as a historical account of Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton s assassination, detailing the involvement of the FBI through an unlikely infiltrator named William O Neal. The movie depicts the Black Panthers as increasingly powerful, their strength propelled by incredible orators like Hampton himself. But does the Black Panther Party still exist today?
Who were the Black Panthers?
With a deep understanding of strategy and force in numbers, the Black Panther Party was founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to fight police brutality against the African American community. The political organization first mainly involved citizen patrols and monitoring of police activity throughout several US cities, but later instituted different kinds of social programs such as free breakfast programs for schools and free health clinics in 13 different African American commun