There's a reason that civil rights activist and Black Panther deputy chairman Fred Hampton's story is little known, according to filmmaker Shaka King - because it would contradict everything America represents.
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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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 .
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Daniel Kaluuya is Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah. (Warner Bros. Pictures) Judas and the Black Messiah has far too much in common with The Departed. Obviously, director Shaka King s film centers on Black characters, while Martin Scorsese s Boston-set entry does not. But the general concept a crime thriller about a man covertly working with law enforcement who infiltrates a group considered to be their threat, to eviscerate its strongest force is the same.
It s an awkward comparison to make because, in actuality, these films shouldn t have many similarities. Judas and the Black Messiah details the story of William O Neal s (LaKeith Stanfield) ascent through the Black Panther Party as an informant for a racist FBI that offers him an awful ultimatum: help them take down party chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya) or go to jail. It s 1966 Chicago, and William, a Black man and petty criminal, has just been busted for impersonating an FBI agent