{"id":25048,"date":"2021-02-03T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/02\/03\/judas-and-the-black-messiah-director-shaka-king-on-fred-hampton-the-black-panthers-cointelpro-2\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T17:30:09","slug":"judas-and-the-black-messiah-director-shaka-king-on-fred-hampton-the-black-panthers-cointelpro-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/02\/03\/judas-and-the-black-messiah-director-shaka-king-on-fred-hampton-the-black-panthers-cointelpro-3\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cJudas and the Black Messiah\u201d Director Shaka King on Fred Hampton, the Black Panthers & COINTELPRO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A highly anticipated new feature film, \u201cJudas and the Black Messiah,\u201d tells the story of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton and William O\u2019Neal, the FBI informant who infiltrated the Illinois Black Panther Party to collect information that ultimately led to Hampton\u2019s 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\u2019Neal and Martin Sheen as FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Shaka King, the film\u2019s director and co-writer, says focusing on Hampton and O\u2019Neal was a way \u201cto make ‘The Departed’ inside the world of COINTELPRO,\u201d referring to the decades-long illegal FBI program to undermine Black and radical political organizations. \u201cI just thought that that was a very clever vessel and intelligent way to Trojan-horse a Fred Hampton biopic.\u201d<\/p>\n

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