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24 kwi 2021 · CNN — The real Deborah Johnson hasn’t watched the scene in “Judas and the Black Messiah” where a cop puts a gun to her pregnant belly after a predawn raid that killed Black Panther leader Fred...
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.
26 paź 2024 · Now named Akua Njeri, her role in the film was more than just his partner, but someone who regularly let her voice be known about Hampton’s speeches and alluding claims of how his time on this earth was going to end.
26 kwi 2021 · Shot twice through the head while his partner, 39-week-pregnant Akua Njeri (formerly known as Deborah Johnson), cowered beside him in bed, the FBI succeeded in covering up their role in the...
He is the only child of Fred Hampton, the Black Panther Party leader assassinated by police in Chicago on December 4, 1969, with his fiancée, now known as Akua Njeri.
9 maj 2021 · The film “ Judas and the Black Messiah ” tells the story of how Fred Hampton led the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party, and the circumstances surrounding his death in 1969. Hampton’s son Fred Jr., and fiancé Akua Njeri served as cultural consultants for the film.