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24 kwi 2021 · The 70-year-old now goes by Akua Njeri. She remains a revolutionary, as well as the mother of Hampton’s namesake. She’s seen the Oscar-nominated movie at least 10 times, she told CNN, but she...
12 lut 2021 · From left, Fred Hampton Jr., the son of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton who was killed by police in 1969, is photographed with his mother Akua Njeri on Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2021, at the ...
23 kwi 2021 · But there’s no one more deserving of credit for it coming to fruition than Akua Njeri—the former Deborah Johnson—who was both betrothed to and pregnant by Hampton on the fateful pre-dawn morning in 1969 when a phalanx of cops and agents besieged their apartment and shot him dead in his sleep.
10 lut 2021 · With King’s provocative camerawork, a sterling cast that includes Kaluuya’s electric performance, and the support of Chairman Fred Jr and his mother Akua Njeri (formerly Deborah Johnson), the biopic delivers his legacy to the present generation.
13 lut 2021 · Photo: Warner Bros. Portrayed in the film by Dominique Fishback (pictured above), Akua Njeri (known in the film’s timeline as Deborah Johnson) met future fiancé Fred Hampton when she was a ...
25 lut 2021 · Here’s what’s real and what’s invented. Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), the central figure in Judas and the Black Messiah, was only 21 when he was gunned down by police officers in a pre-dawn raid...
15 mar 2021 · Bakari is joined by Shaka King, the director of Judas and the Black Messiah, and Akua Njeri, the fiancée of Fred Hampton (portrayed by Dominique Fishback in the movie), to talk about the ...