a review of
Judas and the Black Messiah
Director: Shaka King 2hr 6m (2021)
“You can kill a revolutionary, but you can’t kill a revolution.”
—Fred Hampton, 1969
But what if killing a revolutionary does kill a revolution?
—Curious Film Critic
Until recently, few high school social studies classes, let alone the general adult population, ever stumbled upon COINTELPRO, state terrorism, or Fred Hampton, the last of four prominent African American leaders assassinated during the 1960s, after Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. As the mainstream seems even less aware of our essential protest past, perhaps Hollywood has oddly begun to fill a disturbing void.
...