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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.
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...
13 lut 2021 · 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 student at Chicago’s ...
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.
15 mar 2021 · Shaka King and Akua Njeri on the Making of and History Behind ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’. Bakari also talks to Shaka and Akua about Njeri’s role in advising on the film and why Ryan...
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 has...
14 maj 2019 · 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.
