Fast forward a little over 20 years, and Taylor’s sound work on director Shaka King’s
Judas and the Black Messiah. is indeed being considered for an Oscar nomination. The film tells the true story of the 1969 betrayal and FBI assassination of Fred Hampton, the deputy chairman of the National Black Panther Party. Hampton was only 21 years old when he was identified as a “radical threat” by the FBI shortly after founding the Rainbow Coalition, a multicultural political organization that brought together white, black, and Latino activist groups for the purpose of pursuing lasting social change for all subjugated communities.