Words: Sydney Gore
Styling: Alexander–Julian Gibbson
Fresh from a standout role in the new film Judas and the Black Messiah, we caught up with the dashing Ashton Sanders. In this FRONTPAGE interview, the actor discusses his remarkable career in film and fashion.
Ashton Sanders has had an intense year, which I can tell as soon as he reveals all of his methods of self-care. After spending the majority of 2020 doing acupuncture, reiki, and hypnotherapy in order to “[make] sure that my mind, body, and spirit is right,” the 25-year-old actor is slowly getting back into the swing of things in the outside world while on set for the production of the next season of
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Judas and the Black Messiah has the all the trappings of a genre movie it’s a gritty crime thriller that unfolds on the tense stage of an anti-police revolution but it shouldn’t be underestimated as a history lesson. In its true story of how informant William O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield) infiltrated the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s, director Shaka King’s film highlights historical details and lives that have rarely been given mainstream focus. Along with reckoning with the horrific assassination of party chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya) by Chicago Police, the FBI, and the State’s Attorney’s Office, the film also celebrates Hampton’s power as an orator and man of the people, as well as the impact of his organization on the city of Chicago: the breakfast programs, the free healthcare, the Rainbow Coalition, and more
Judas and the Black Messiah: Does the Black Panther Party Still Exist?
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Judas and the Black Messiah serves as a historical account of Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton s assassination, detailing the involvement of the FBI through an unlikely infiltrator named William O Neal. The movie depicts the Black Panthers as increasingly powerful, their strength propelled by incredible orators like Hampton himself. But does the Black Panther Party still exist today?
Who were the Black Panthers?
With a deep understanding of strategy and force in numbers, the Black Panther Party was founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to fight police brutality against the African American community. The political organization first mainly involved citizen patrols and monitoring of police activity throughout several US cities, but later instituted different kinds of social programs such as free breakfast programs for schools and free health clinics in 13 different African American commun