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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 · Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton's widow Akua Njeri and son Fred Hampton Jr. were instrumental in bringing the story of "Judas and the Black Messiah" to the screen.
1 mar 2022 · Akua Njeri, formerly known as Deborah Johnson, was a member of the Black Panther Party and is the mother of Chairman Fred Hampton’s only child. When she was eight-and-a-half months pregnant,...
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...
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.
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 ...
15 lut 2021 · 8 min read. The title might say “ Judas and the Black Messiah,” but there’s a third integral figure in the Chairman Fred Hampton biopic directed by Shaka King. Her name is Akua Njeri, nee Deborah Johnson, and she was the fiancé to Chairman Hampton.
