From left: Daniel Kaluuya and LaKeith Stanfield in Judas and the Black Messiah
Yesterday’s powder keg, still simmering today.
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2/12/2021
Daniel Kaluuya stars as Fred Hampton with LaKeith Stanfield as the FBI informant who betrayed both the Illinois Black Panther Party chairman and himself in Shaka King s powerhouse political drama.
The 1969 killing at age 21 of Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton was a potent secondary plot point last year in Aaron Sorkin s
The Trial of the Chicago 7. That same government hit job gets expanded treatment and wields proportionately explosive impact in Shaka King s
Judas and the Black Messiah, a historical thriller with an urgency that speaks even louder more than half a century later. Led by sensational performances from Daniel Kaluuya as Hampton and LaKeith Stanfield as William O Neal, the FBI informant who infiltrated his inner circle, this is a scalding account of oppression and revolution, coercion and betrayal, r
WITH regard to Greg Russell and his exclusive about air ionisers: during my time as a Royal Army Medical Corps medic, I spent time on the staff of the High Dependency Unit at the Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot. One of the items of electrical equipment, which was left permanently running, was a little machine, not unlike in appearance a small fan heater. This machine, we were told, was an “ozone generator”. We medics, of course, thought it was just a bit of kit which reduced the very unpleasant smells which inhabit units like this one. But no, we were told, there was an anti-microbial benefit to ozone and this machine was helping keep the bugs down. This was in the 70s.
Letters
Private care homes capitalise on the outdated expectation that people in the care sector, most of whom are women, should be labouring purely out of love THE revelation of the 2000 Covid deaths in private care homes has been labelled a crisis by some. But the crisis has been going on for a lot longer. Abuse, abandonment, neglect and unnecessary death are the shameful consequence of entrusting the dignity of thousands of vulnerable lives to the hands of profit. The scandalous pay care workers receive is just the icing on this tiered cake of death and pound notes. The sexism of expecting those in a field dominated by female workers to not only accept but expect less than a living wage reeks with the audacity of a 1950s husband eyeing up his secretary.