![]() ![]() Judas and the Black Messiah gets a lot of the facts right about what happened and the roles Hampton, O’Neal, and the FBI played. While Hampton is central to the film’s narrative, FBI informant William “Bill” O’Neal ( Lakeith Stanfield) is at the forefront, infiltrating the Black Panther Party and later offering the blueprints to Hampton’s apartment, an act that would lead to his murder by the Chicago police. Edgar Hoover’s plan is to stop the rise of Hampton, the titular “Black messiah.” ![]() Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya), the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, was deemed a radical threat by the FBI - in the film, one of the agents compares the Black Panther Party to the Ku Klux Klan, a false equivalency to be sure - and J. Judas and the Black Messiah is based on the true events that led to the state-funded assassination of Fred Hampton in 1969. Warning! Spoilers ahead for Judas and the Black Messiah. ![]()
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