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12 lut 2021 · Thank those he left behind. 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...
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.
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...
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 ...
Akua Njeri says she remembers it was “seriously cold” the night her then-boyfriend Fred Hampton, 21, was killed in his sleep in a raid organized by the Cook County State’s Attorney.
25 lut 2021 · Deborah Johnson (Dominique Fishback), who today goes by the name Akua Njeri, is the character whose story is the hardest to compare with the historical record, since her most significant scenes...
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...
