Cast of ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ talks people power, Black love
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“It’s about taking care of your own and loving yourself and decentralizing that liberation … No one can ever free you, you have to free yourself.”
This reflection on the road to freedom is one of many revolutionary philosophies Daniel Kaluuya internalizes from his work in “Judas and the Black Messiah,” a new film by Shaka King. Kaluuya plays Fred Hampton, chairman of the Illinois Black Panther party in 1969, in a modern-day retelling of his assassination and how it was aided by an FBI informant from within the Panther party named William O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield).