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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...
12 lut 2021 · In January 1990, activist Akua Njeri attended the funeral of William O’Neal, the man responsible for leaking information to Chicago police that aided in their assassination of her fiancée,...
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.
11 lut 2021 · 'Judas and the Black Messiah' shot for 41 days in Cleveland, which was a stand-in for the Chicago area, where Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton grew up and lived.
25 lut 2021 · That first meeting was captured on film and appears in the 1969 documentary American Revolution 2, a kaleidoscopic portrait of leftist organizing in Chicago in the late 1960s. Advertisement
6 mar 2023 · Among Fred Hampton's loyal fellow activists in the film, and in real life, was his girlfriend, poet Deborah Johnson. She continued to be an active member of Chicago's BPP after his death and later changed her name to Akua Njeri.
10 lut 2021 · When news began to spread regarding the production of “Judas and the Black Messiah,” the film detailing the last days of Black Panther Illinois chapter chairman Fred Hampton’s life, and how an aide infiltrated the organization at the behest of the FBI, those who knew the charismatic leader had questions.
