When James Baldwin wrote about the killing of Fred Hampton, he was not trying to persuade readers that the killing was unjustified. He assumed they already understood what had happened. Hampton, 21 ...

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As the world mourns the tragic passing of legendary actor Chadwick Boseman, known for his stirring depictions of iconic Black figures such as Jackie Robinson, James Brown, Thurgood Marshall, and the ...

How does a filmmaker reckon with the unjust death of Fred Hampton? The Black Panther Party deputy chairman was murdered in his sleep in 1969, at age 21, by Chicago police in conjunction with the FBI.