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Feb 22, 2021
Actor Dominique Fishback Examines Black Love In âJudas And The Black Messiahâ
The hosts of HuffPost s And THAT S That! podcast sit down with Fishback, who stars alongside Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield in the highly anticipated film about Fred Hampton.
By Ja han Jones, Taryn Finley, and Shaquille Romblay
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Dominique Fishback, star of Judas and the Black Messiah, joined And THAT S That to discuss her role playing Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton s fiancee and political partner, Deborah Johnson.
Without question, âJudas and the Black Messiahâ is one of this yearâs most highly anticipated films.
The project, co-written and directed by Shaka King, is a star-studded story of betrayal â here, the killing of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya) as told by Bill OâNeal (Lakeith Stanfield), the police informant who did him in.
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SNCC); and the Congress for Racial Equality (
CORE). While these associations generally pursued their goals through civil disobedience and the courts, it was the Black Panther Party that eschewed the establishment in favor of leftist community organizing, a focus on Black power, and military tactics.
New film
Judas and the Black Messiah, in theaters and on HBO Max Feb 12, follows the rise of Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), the head of the Illinois chapter of the party. Filmmaker Shaka King tells the true story of Hampton and Bill O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield), the car thief turned FBI informant forced to undermine the organization from the inside and participate in Hampton’s assassination. The movie is blistering in its portrayal of the conspiracy between the federal government and the local police department to silence Hampton.
Updated 6:47 AM ET, Fri February 12, 2021
Daniel Kaluuya (center) in Judas and the Black Messiah. (CNN) Judas and the Black Messiah recounts a fascinating fact-based story in somewhat disjointed way, as it oscillates between two key characters. Despite that imbalance the movie has plenty to recommend it beginning with Daniel Kaluuya s crackling performance while serving as kind of a companion to two other recent releases: The Trial of the Chicago 7 and the documentary MLK/FBI.
Kaluuya plays Fred Hampton, a minor character in Chicago 7 who headed the Illinois chapter of the Black Panthers, and like Martin Luther King Jr. drew special attention from FBI director J. Edgar Hoover (Martin Sheen), portrayed as determined to strangle the movement by any means necessary.