{"id":17247,"date":"2021-02-01T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=9ca85e263a1ef5e862e0eb948264793e"},"modified":"2021-02-01T13:43:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T13:43:00","slug":"judas-and-the-black-messiah-director-shaka-king-on-fred-hampton-the-black-panthers-cointelpro-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/01\/judas-and-the-black-messiah-director-shaka-king-on-fred-hampton-the-black-panthers-cointelpro-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Judas and the Black Messiah&#8221; Director Shaka King on Fred Hampton, the Black Panthers &amp; COINTELPRO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/2\/1\/judas_and_the_black_messiah_interview\"><img style=\"float:right; padding-left:5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/16\/56416\/w320\/judas-and-the-black-messiah.jpg\" alt=\"Judas and the black messiah\" \/><\/a><p>A highly anticipated new feature film, &#8220;Judas and the Black Messiah,&#8221; tells the story of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton and William O&#8217;Neal, the <span class=\"caps\">FBI<\/span> informant who infiltrated the Illinois Black Panther Party to collect information that ultimately led to Hampton&#8217;s killing in 1969 by law enforcement officers. The film is premiering at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and stars Daniel Kaluuya as Hampton, LaKeith Stanfield as O&#8217;Neal and Martin Sheen as <span class=\"caps\">FBI<\/span> Director J. Edgar Hoover. Shaka King, the film&#8217;s director and co-writer, says focusing on Hampton and O&#8217;Neal was a way &#8220;to make &#39;The Departed&#39; inside the world of <span class=\"caps\">COINTELPRO<\/span>,&#8221; referring to the decades-long illegal <span class=\"caps\">FBI<\/span> program to undermine Black and radical political organizations. &#8220;I just thought that that was a very clever vessel and intelligent way to Trojan-horse a Fred Hampton biopic.&#8221;<\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2021\/2\/1\/judas_and_the_black_messiah_interview\">Democracy Now!<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A highly anticipated new feature film, &#8220;Judas and the Black Messiah,&#8221; tells the story of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton and William O&#8217;Neal, the FBI informant who infiltrated the Illinois Black Panther Party to collect information that ultimately led to Hampton&#8217;s killing in 1969 by law enforcement officers. The film is premiering at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and stars Daniel Kaluuya as Hampton, LaKeith Stanfield as O&#8217;Neal and Martin Sheen as FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Shaka King, the film&#8217;s director and co-writer, says focusing on Hampton and O&#8217;Neal was a way &#8220;to make &#8216;The Departed&#8217; inside the world of COINTELPRO,&#8221; referring to the decades-long illegal FBI program to undermine Black and radical political organizations. &#8220;I just thought that that was a very clever vessel and intelligent way to Trojan-horse a Fred Hampton biopic.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17248,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17247\/revisions\/17248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}