King, more than anyone else, fit Hoover’s fear of a Black messiah. According to the book “The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.: From ‘Solo’ to Memphis,” by David J. Garrow, the FBI ...

The movie, “Judas and the Black Messiah” is a largely accurate portrayal of how the government conspired to kill one of the leaders of the Black Panther Party, a former leader of the Panthers ...

But Judas and the Black Messiah fumbles by assuming that the only way to humanize Fred Hampton is to focus on the man who helped kill him, and by then underwriting that character to such a degree ...

"Judas and the Black Messiah" dramatizes the life and death of Fred Hampton, the former chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party who was killed by Chicago police during a raid on his West Side ...