24 Burst results for "Fred Hampton"
The Right Time with Bomani Jones
"fred hampton" Discussed on The Right Time with Bomani Jones
"First of all, Le'Veon bell and starting his boxing career is 30. He is 13. All right? If this is a career that will be anything but a series of stunts and I know there are people who would say boxing as a sport is really just an endless series of stunts for the most part interrupted by actual bouts. If that's what you're going to do, I don't think there'd be the time. I don't know if you know Mickey Rourke. Nikki work picked up boxing when he was about 35. And he said multiple rounds of plastic surgery, not because he's afraid of aging, but because he managed to get his face rearranged. All right, and several different ways. That's probably what's going to happen to Lenny on pal at one point because if you want to avoid head trauma as a football player after a career playing football boxing does not seem like the most natural switch there for me. Second of all, I do feel a little bit queasy about the notion of watching lambda bell and Adrian Peterson after both having careers that running back, which is the yeah, which along with linebacker is probably the most contacted intensive role on the field in football, both do a staged piece of combat at the crypto dot com arena. I don't want to lean too hard on dystopian hell imagery here, but that's pretty dystopian. Like if I told you that 20 years ago, you'd be like, oh God, what happened to this country, right? That's bad, yeah, it's bad, it's not good. But people will pay for it. They will turn out for this. I don't think as many as they think, but people will pay for this. Third, is that how you want to spend your retirement just a larger issue. Like, what do you want to do? You're 30. You've finished up your extremely brutal athletic career. Why? Why? What's wrong in your brain that this is what's happened. Like, what's wrong with your soul?
The Mad Mamluks
"fred hampton" Discussed on The Mad Mamluks
"And that employee was Roman iqbal of care Ohio. This guy right? Did he go on a spending spoon or something? He's buying some guns and stuff. Four years mister ball was secretly sharing confidential information about our civil rights work, including surreptitiously recorded conversations and strategic plans and private emails with anti Muslim extremists. He did this in violation of his ethical duties to the organization and his moral duties to protect Ohio Muslim community. The local chapters board of director has fired mister iqbal, who confessed to working with the hate group after being confirmed with the evidence against him, and secured their organizations he data assets and infrastructure. Care national has also confirmed the safety and security of our systems. Ball never had access to our data, or the data of our local offices, which operate separately and maintain strong security protocols. We are now working closely with Carol hyo team to hold mister iqbal anti Muslim hate group and those who work with him, whether forensic or domestic actors accountable for their conduct which may have violated numerous state and federal laws. We think a lot we're exposing this plot to us and we think a lot for protecting us from harm. They plan on the law plans and the best of planners. Sadly, this could hate groups attempt to spy on moths and some organizations with not surprising. Civil rights advocates have been targeting or have been targeted by infiltrators for decades for Malcolm X and Fred Hampton to anti apartheid activists, those who stand for justice have repeatedly been targeted by those who stand for injustice. Okay, there's a lot of blah blah blah. Finally, please with that, please know that we continue to investigate this situation further. There is more information that we can not share. At this time, rest assured that we plan to do everything that we can to protect American listens from the harm of hate groups. As always, we thank you. We thank you for your support. We encourage you to redouble your support for our work to fight anti Muslim bigotry across the United States with tanks. This is something we do. You're literally an Islamic organization. Organization, brother. What do you mean? Counsel on American. Civil rights for a song? Yeah, but anyways. Here's the thing. Honestly, first of all, can we just say that when the guys will retard? You know why? I mean, if you mind blown here, if you're gonna do it, right? At least do it right. Why would you just I mean, come on, bro, you wait to last two months before you got caught to use that corporate card and spend money and buy guns. Was there a number of how much money he spent on guns? No, they're not releasing details. The thing is, he's been to ED for years. Erectile dysfunction?.
Black History Year
"fred hampton" Discussed on Black History Year
"Gets ready for season. Four coming out later this year. Now as you've likely heard. Jason say this show connects you to the history. Thinkers and activists were left out of mainstream. Conversations is why we created this platform to give space in uplift those voices and it's also why one question we always ask. Our guests is what is black liberation. Look like to you and when we asked this an amazing thing happens. Each guest has a different answer now. It sounds simple. But it's really fascinating that each guest visualizes a different way to achieve freedom. Now some might think. Well there's so many ideas on how we can progress. How can any progress actually happen. And it's a fair question but we push black. Believe there's no one way or right way to arrive at black liberation. We can apply different strategies even to reach this shared goal in just like chairman. Fred hampton junior said in his season three interview we have to heighten the contradiction and we agree with that because when we collectively begin to learn the diverse perspectives within our community and begin to understand each other's viewpoints. Black liberation is in our reach. So this episode. We're featuring some of the most thought provoking in inspiring responses to this question as we all continue to explore what freedom for our people is and what it can be. Thanks.
WCPT 820
"fred hampton" Discussed on WCPT 820
"Will mark the 55th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party. It was December 4th 1969 when Fred Hampton and others were killed by Chicago police. Who had been sent to their home in the dark of night by Cook County State's attorney, Edward Hanrahan, Um J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI director felt that the Black Panther Party was a threat. To the security of the United States, and he wanted the entire party eliminated. There is a move to make Hampton House Historical landmark in the city of Maywood. Fred Hampton Jr joins us now and tell me about the petition drive that you're doing. Yes, indeed. This is, um another phase and ongoing struggle. Uh, make sure that the legs and chairman Fred Hampton, uh, remains intact. Imagine hearts of the people. Um, we've got the house is 804 South 17th Avenue. Um, right across the street from the elementary school that chimp afraid, attended as a child, Uh, down the streets in high school he attended. So we the community support. Uh, for not only the house is operated as a museum but also a community community resource center. But we want to We take me up in the AMI in regards to make an official for this big historical landmarks directly recognized, No said today And now, today and tomorrow and after that No. We've been fortunate against from all walks of life Church for business people, But this is a conversation that you go to local, Uh, barber shops around here. You know what people are talking about it as you mentioned earlier, Congressman Bobby Rush to Congressman Davis. I think I missed early state was represented the soundboard and the host of others. Just even locally here are getting on board with this. And you know something that, um he was the movie the release of the movie Jews and Black Messiah that you know people are, you know, you know, uh, kind of playing catch up about, you know, regardless of this legacy, um of one of almost charismatic, courageous representatives for the struggle for self determination. What kind of exhibits do you want to have Their What kind of documents? How are you going to illustrate the story of the Black Panther Party? Um photos and books, photos. Documents, Uh, photos of the purchase of breakfast program, which in Chicago alone Black Panther Party offend a minimum of 3500 Children a week. History of, um Oh, actually, the work the chairman Fred actually been altered of the Rainbow Coalition. Um, absolutely want to. I'm not the greatest with technology. We want to You know, invite and encourage the different dynamics about yourself. Bring up to speed for this, You know, um, his president generation they can relate to, And it would be like the and also a living museum. So it's not just information in the abstract, nostalgic sort of sort of way but correlated to yourself again, the work we do with the work in the contributions. An issue that we are faced with today because it would be ideal to just talk about chamber friend of Black Panther Party and nostalgic sense that you know how you know we're having back in the sixties and how bad things work. But as as we have continues to remind every date that you know, Same indicates that only the names about starting things about change the names not even changed. So that so that people can be look at this template. This prototype of an organization of you know, um Brothers and sisters were basically range age 14 24 years old, instead of on the alternative, focus, self determination and you can have an example right here. And maybe it is geographically speaking. A small place represents a political giant to the world. Um, school across Believe that one parent said to me once, she said, her chill truth. Get bigger size church Now as it was much choose what with their chest out Now they know the chairman Fred attended this school. Wow. Do you have any Mementos of your dad? I know he was dead before you were born. Anything that you have of his that you hang on to It's um and the number of things but in particular I recall even knows, Um, this campaign would just started about a year year and a half here at the Hampton else. Recall getting many people may recalled one of the famous photos of him with the brown quarter void. Blames the jacket, you know. Recall getting that, you know, getting that jacket off here in the house? Um, you know if I can get, you know, I remember putting my mother's hands and the further being a hole that touched in fact, is running. Um Not 234 years ago that that most other things fix up, But it's another, uh, war story for lack of better terms. Seven to your elders said to me to hear the kid. How's he said Chairman Fred please. Did I give with anything? I said, brother, some things we have to get rid of. You understand that these are the dishes their chairman, free eat out of The bed frame as a child. He slept on It is here, so I'll sit here now and just, you know, again, I receiver charging and I'm going to battle fatigue. I see that sometimes I just get my you know. My pen and paper and go go into session going to search Yeah. If from some of our listeners would like to sign one of these petitions. How can they do it? Yes, indeed. Well, I actually think you can either those who read Director Come right here. No fourth 17th Avenue. We are and they were the moment we also we have the train stops. Also, you can go online. Um, save the Hampton hills dot org. And save the Hampton house dot org..
WCPT 820
"fred hampton" Discussed on WCPT 820
"The actual paperwork in regard to the historical landmark status on that date time the Legacy chamber for you, the Black Panther Party. Certainly stay in the match the hearts of the people. Wow. And let's see. Um, your dad was 21. 21 when he died December 4th 1969 in a police raid. Um How old were you then? I actually was born approximately 25. Days later, I got the success they did. My mother was able to have any. I was pregnant with me. The time I'll still on occasion at the prenatal care that I received as opposed to dark stethoscope was Chicago Police Department revolved with being placed my mother's pregnant belly when she didn't have much pregnant. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. How? How awful. Is your mother still alive? In such a way such way she she president chairs December 4th committee, and, um, she she still fighting still stand and she just affect every August 13th December, the fourth Two major dates for us. She's right there in front of the site or assassinations occurred that she gives us a blow by blow details. What occurred then? And not in an abstract, nostalgic sort of way, you know, ties into the center Me for the all going stroke for self determination, all addressing the question of case of political prisoners Sunday, Ah to call him when we Abu Jamal see numbers and presented to the president. The president campaigns that we've placed the date. She always were also forced to have her. Present on the advisory board for the Black Panther Party. Cubs. Also, it works. You know what to say. The half announced committee. She's alive and still fighting. Wow. Wow. How do you feel about the recent film? That was, um that was done about all these events and how the party Was infiltrated and how your dad and others were betrayed. Have you watched it? What do you think of it? It was a It was a labor of love that we, In fact, as I speak to you now I'm little shit that they have to house. Um May well annoyed at the table where we get meat we admit with riot producer Ryan Coogler director Samkange Charles King. Then you could lose your dominant fish back and others you know, 8 to 9 hours right here. We admit that we went to the downside community. We have some meetings. Um, it was a labor of love was tug and pull a lot of struggles a lot of battles. We were able to put a place about what we call uh, Panther cub, political pills and the apple sauce. You know, Of course, it's the movies. But you're saying that there was we get a lot of information in there, and if they're farm surpasses a lot of misinformation that have been Put an unauthorized books. So again, no regrets. You know, we have our own growing relationship, um, with, uh, not only the actors, but the producers onto that was involved themselves. So that in fact, some of the act from the cash numbers came out this past August 30th and Daniel Cholula, he called in, so it's an ongoing relationship. So you know, uh, we can't. We're not. We're not closed the relationship. The movie it was. It wasn't just it wasn't there was they did not conclude the relationships with all its ongoing I remember reading about these events, and I think J. Edgar Hoover was head of the FBI. Then he was not a friend of the African American community. And the Black Panther Party. I read he Oh, he viewed it as a threat to the internal security of the country. This raid, um, that killed your dad and others was ordered by Cook County State's attorney, Edward Hanrahan. But it's it's viewed now as frankly a little more than a political assassination. Is that how you see it? As of the was, in fact, you know, with the movie. Um you know, we we emphasize we stress a certain things pointed out that the revolution and loops and valves you know evil in regards with the P students, the black Messiah. You had Jacob, who was portrayed by Martin Sheen directly state? No, no Vague sort of way, you know, send that black and probably targeted in fact, um Woman director FBI, Jaeckel Hoover and Attorney General John Mitchell actually are stated that the Black Panther Party representative number one internal threats, the United States Securities instead of civil war and whistle far said the Black Panther Party had to be destroyed The end of 1969. And so those are strategic kids. Those, uh, the sadness. The chairman for it depends what the Mark Clark and say. Well, this is a result of the infamous Cointelpro Graham, the counterintelligence program. This is not just a case of rapid off I mean police brutality this again, uh, designated war waged against, um, self determination for black people, in particular, which over 90% of the black, uh of the COINTELPRO tactics with that record, the Black Panther Party. Well, I'm talking to Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. Who is the son of Fred Hampton, from the Black Panther Party in Chicago. Assassinated in 1969. We're going to take a real quick break. Fred. I have some other questions. I want to talk to you about this petition when we come right back after a break. There's no excuse to.
WCPT 820
"fred hampton" Discussed on WCPT 820
"A move to make Fred Hampton's home a historical landmark. One of the people involved in that effort is his son Fred Hampton Jr. Who joins us now. Thank you so much. Okay. Um, we've had a little bit of a technical problem. Um, we are Reaching out to Fred, who we haven't connected with quite yet, So I'll just tell you a little bit more about what's going on. There has been a petition created just this last weekend. Um, to recognize his house. The house that Fred Hampton senior grew up in To be recognized as a historical landmark by the city of Maywood. Congressman Bobby Rush has signed on to this effort. Congressman Danny Davis has signed on to this effort. Remember Bobby Rush was part of the Black Panther Party. Back in the day when he was Morad Ical activist as opposed to being a radical activist congressman, Um the Hampton family moved into the house in 1958. When Fred was 10 years old. And that's where he grew up. But that is where he became political. Um, And there is an effort now to make that historic site a place not only to honor Fred Hampton, but a place where a different works by the Black Panther Party can be displayed and what they were about and what they were. Trying to accomplish. Um, we are going to talk to Fred Jr about that, Um, the if you saw the movie Judas and the Black Messiah that is a retelling. Of the whole story of how the Black Panther Party was betrayed by one of their members who was working. Working with the FBI. Um you know what? Let's take. Let's take a real quick. Oh, we got him. Okay, great. Um, friendly with us now. Okay, Zach. I don't hear him. Hello. Hi, Fred. How are you? I'm willing to say, how are you doing? I'm joined. I'm doing great. I tried to give our listeners a little bit of background here on on what's going on with the Hampton House. But before you and I talk about that, can you tell me a little bit about what you're doing? What? What It's been like for you growing up in the in the shadow of such a famous father and the work that you've taken on Yes, indeed. Well, let me let me promise with this. Um, I'm still on cloud 1000 from this past week Weekends event which you have marches City third birthday. But my father chairman Fred had had not been assassinated before, along with the Mark Clark this annual event that we do Every August 30th the chamber for his streets party, Um this this year in particular key Well before I want you to you and talk about that later, but I'm president. I'm honored. Humbled by the international chairman of the Black Panther Party Cubs that the organization is Canada Legacy, The Black Panther Party, We say it's a tough act to follow, but we try our best to walk in their footsteps, but also that the Panther Post steps. Uh lot of the programs the Black Panther Party had the free purpose program we have. Today We have the triple sees as the Children, community and clubs. Which every Saturday in particular throughout the world. Standinin friends, Um Sao Paulo, Brazil. Gary, Indiana, Chicago, Oakland, California We not just providing food, uh, charitable sense. But also, you know, in this one with the political Uh um, Education of Black Panther party we have, who are the Cubs? The Cubs. The Cubs are the ideological offspring of blacks in department people here that time anything, we'll let me too young. The other's know exactly. I'm 51 years old, but it's the biological offspring of the Black Panther Party. And this international organization is again can carry on the work in the legacy like the Children, and the grandchildren. Is that what you're talking about? Was not not not just a biological we have We have some people in a biological choice of 11 point was issued the, uh move the organizations that are a lot biological All spring of the Black Panther Party. Uh, And have you? I know that Congressman Bobby Rush. Congressman Danny Davis have written letters of support for this issue about making Hampton House a landmark. Have you talked to them about this? So we just did. I think this past weekend we did, um, prior to the event, uh, for the chamber, Fred's birthday. We did two interviews together, and it's uh, this to them. Other other less official state represents the sound forward. Others are coming on board with it, Uh, it's growing. In fact, representatives Throughout the country throughout the world, you know, lying with it, So it's the only way it's ongoing campaign, And sometimes some people have asked why we would either have a petition drive and the reason being that we were like People to beat intertwined with this effort, because that's not necessary Part you have to petition draft. We want the people to be involved from all walks of life. Molecular officials, the truly parishioners to people in a barbershop, the pool halls you name everyone to be involved with this campaign. And correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this October, the 55th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party. Exactly two or 15 would be the Yes indeed. And this year in particular is going to be, um I guess I'm kind of cat out the bag, but, uh, the thing we're going to push for this one is one party. One legacy will be, um, speaking having events in Philadelphia, October 14 back to Chicago, October 15th October 22nd in Oakland, California, which is the birthplace of Black Panther Party. We'll be revealing the bust statue from Minister Yuri P. Newton and, um, so there's no strategic that. Well, maybe you know something..
WNYC 93.9 FM
"fred hampton" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"I'm all for civil rights, but you can't cheat your way to equality. And you certainly can't shoot your way to it. You're just turning in. This is Q. I'm Tom Power. And I'm speaking with Shaka King, director of Judas and the Black Messiah, a new film about Black Panther Party member Fred Hampton. Shaka, Can you tell us a little bit about the significance of that moment? Absolutely because my mom likes to say, you know, some people think the White man's Isis colder. You know what I mean? So he enters this space, and he's like, Yo, I'm at I'm at a white FBI agents house. I'm sitting on his couch. I'm smoking cigars. I'm drinking fine whiskey. I'm I kind of made it, you know, And in that scene, it's a bit of a misdirection right? Because You know, the first thing you hear when Mitchell talk about is how he, um, investigated the freedom writer murders and how he you know, basically, uh, was looking to prosecute the clan as a member of the You know the FBI, and it gives like it's a surprising bit of information that's actually true. You know, and you're like, Oh, wow. Okay, So this guy's a little more complex than I thought, right? Like, you know, he's he's pursuing the plan like that when I When we found that out What will and I found that out like this guy pursued the Klan like that's kind of interesting, you know? And so he's talking about that. And you know you just as I think you as an audience member start to see. Okay, maybe I Maybe this guy's just there's there's more layers to this person. He immediately compares the pampas to the clamp Right and you see that he's this is his. It's interesting because he's a in a sense he's attempting to manipulate William O'Neal. But he also believes that yeah, He felt that he's speaking his truth, you know, and O'Neill is listening to him, right? Rather, O'Neill is not listening to him. O Neill is just totally disinterested. He's focused on smoking the cigar and drinking the whiskey. And Mitchell just kind of realizes, Okay, I'm not really connecting to this person. He could be trails off. He's about to, you know, Go and put some hot dogs on O'Neill is like, Hey, let's talk about what you know what really matters to me, Which is how do you have all this money? And how can I get some of this money? And you realized that when he talks about romance for being a father figure to him, he's not talking about the fact that he believed in any of the things he said that he gave him advice on or that he He was a father figure because he lived the way that he wanted to live, and he was giving him an opportunity to in his mind. He was giving him an opportunity to live the way he wanted to live. And so that scene is about a lot of things. You know what I mean? It's about revealing where Mitchell's character, uh and and really leaning into a piece of propaganda that this country has put forth about the Black Panther Party in terms of just like saying White terrorism and, you know, being a black revolutionary of the same thing. Yeah. Can we Can we talk a little bit about that? I mean, I know we don't have a whole lot of time left. But I do have kind of two points. I want to hit before before we go. And one and one is that is that public perception of the Black Panther Party has historically being very divisive even within Black communities, you know, and a lot of the negative perceptions The Panther Party are tied to an FBI initiative called Cointelpro. You and the cast have been pretty clear about wanting this film, too. Clear up some of the misconceptions people have about Fred Hampton and the Black Panther Party. Can you give me one like, what's the biggest misconception you wanted to address here? I mean, you can start with just that. They hated white people, You know, Um The fact is that it was a national mandate to you know, go coalitions across facial lines and and actually put The black fans of party ideologically at odds with a lot of, um more black cultural nationalists. You know, thinkers and and organizes an activist, And that was a dialogue that they engaged in. Not forever because, you know, I mean, you look at a lot of it was. It was really cool to look at, you know, and it really shows you just how like intelligent these folks were that they were just like Not. You know whether we're you whether you know, despite what you said to stand politically just that they were thinking and talking about these things. This in depth. It's runs so counter to kind of go back to you. You asked me in the first place, he went so counter to the caricature that's betrayed of them. Just like you know, militant. You know, folks with like guns and leather jackets like these are like, really intelligent thinkers who had, like very intellectual debates, You know, But, yeah, The fact that they hate white people is clearly wasn't and you know Obviously, like people know about the Oakland chapter, and you know their alignment with, you know the the new, less radicals out there. But, you know, in Chicago, Illinois chapter is partnering with Poor white folks like rising up angry and you know that the young patriots and you're talking about Chicago, which was the most segregated city in the country at the time, and it's to the state is incredibly segregated. So that was revolutionary. Uh, maybe this is a good way to wrap. But, um, I do want to make sure we talk about this that Fred Hampton's son and Fred Hampton's widow were both involved in the film they were on set for arguably the most harrowing moment of the movie, which is the murder of Fred Hampton by law enforcement agents while he was sleeping is in his apartment next to his wife. Who in real life was there watching this scene B shot who at the time was pregnant with Fred Hampton's son, who again was watching this scene B shot? How did that weight feel like to you?.
Over the Shoulder
"fred hampton" Discussed on Over the Shoulder
"And we're back with more over the showed a podcast. That was my main man yards coming. Right out of mount rainier and the dmv. With his song. Purple sage from the dylan josh. Mix tape the drop over. The summer makes y'all go check him out. And hey i'm yards on instagram. Tell most situ fellas go vibes republican women. I like it cool take it. I'm working with the keenum. Which china cool things on the brand new records. But that's for another podcast when another day. The y'all mind. If i go to play as a concentrator i find it. Pivotal to constantly investigate that which inspires confounded disrupt creativity each week. I'm going to support one creative concept because they analyze it to its to. Its adams in hopes of expanding the creative process this week. I think times a new blueprints fellas while we were gone samaria rice. The mother of tamir rice called out. Ben crump sean kane to make mallory little baby another famous others who have used the trauma inflicted on black bodies to garner attention for their cause. Which makes me question is actually a really good series of tweets that she put out Familiarize is a list of demands to individuals. And at the end of this at the end of this man. She basically said keep my baby mouth now as activist as a black creator as revolutionary. I have two choices moment. I could say you know what black mom fuck off. Or i listen to what she got to say. What makes it begs the question. Why do we use trauma inflicted on black bodies bar. Why do we use trauma inflicted on black bodies to garner attention towards our marginalisation oppression etc. That answer that question is simple. It worked right. It's been sixty six years. Says momma immaterial the casket open and get nichols. Who never saw that. Jet cover never smelled the remains on that chicago. Some afternoon are using the same strategy in on other people's behalf without proper tribute sixty six years. We've been using the same blueprint. And as i think about mercer which we talked about earlier. Her stance black pain. I reminded that the sixteen year old could pull sesame titan mike. I said earlier. She could have eighty years of black joy header. So then what is next for the black narrative. I really feel like in times like these digs are slave to the narrative of this trauma. Porn is like the say. This is lena weights specialty to queen and slim them. If you will so in the past years we've seen black broadway burned down twice on. Hbo meaning why folks has caught up to our trauma narrative tropes and are trying to manipulate us through those narratives. Sound like the white man said this white man said sat. But let's see chairman frame billie holiday of you want the truth right. Oh blueprints build buildings. And i think it's time for new blueprints who sketches them. No and that's be more goes to. What are your thoughts vows. It's perfect back to. You're just discussing like we write those. We discuss those blueprints. Now would never be part of that is if we're going to do it in full fidelity of what we want every once again. Blackness is not a monolith so everybody's How they display their their vision is going to be different than what we might all agree on. There's no consensus but if we can have as much of the funding behind these projects you know. Dad gives us the the strongest and most pure voice. But you know as we go back to right now. We're still in the air where big big meeting. Entertainment corporations are additional big bags now for that drama right so at this point. It's nothing wrong with that. That's a dope day. I'm right. I mean but you know it has its place it has its place but what we really going to do with that. What i'm saying like I was watching Juice black messiah interviews right with the for now with them the kugler as an executive producer and a director over in kugler said that you know judas black messiah would not have even been a thing unless of with had it not been for the wide in major successive black panther really. That's i could definitely see. That can see that you. While they were filming black panther that's when he told Damn kalou light young trying to get you to do this so for real right. So i think the pieces are still building now coming people getting the play where they have more and more power and influence and influence over by putting out. These works in them. Continue to build such a high profile on black radars right. I think it's headed in the right direction. Where ultimately will turn things on his head where we're Trauma porn will truly have. Its place what i'm saying as where where Sorry of fred hampton film. Sorry to cut you off. Tops of fred hampton film can be said can be can be done in a more Focused way instead of having to do it in duality with william o'neil looking through his is is host to exactly does that make sense. It does it does. Oh no like for me i have. I suppose the principal of view of the situation like if we speaking going further with the black trauma if we are trying to make sure they remember the names and advocate for different basic elements to be held true. You have to respect the origins of the door. The origins of the situation. So like you have to respect the mom you have to create these the blueprints that we speaking of a and or like the forms like we have to make sure that we honor them like this. Is you have to have their blessings going right home in their case name right. That's just that's just meteo. No i mean i feel like. That's just a respectful thing to do right. I think with the cross come in is as we are. Tommy just kind of touched on this as we are trying to remember. Brianna taylor and bring justice for briana taylor. Is it possible for us to do that without saying her name. I mean if we're saying. I mean they're there's their representatives of a larger issue in the first place riots. Not just about brianna taylor. You know saying. It's not just about george floyd even those who profiled instances that happened really gained national worldwide traction but those are supposed to be proxies for a larger set of Injustices says that have been bestowed upon us are people who longer here to speak for themselves in many families. The mothers of slaying Black bodies who don't have that platform so that's why now more than ever. We got to defend the mothers who do have these platforms Trayvon martin's mother. Sabrina fulton never get last night You know continue to highlight. The mothers of parents siblings. Who are running for office public off public public office like we gotta do it across the board them up the right way. Yeah i liked it though. Let them instead of instead of just depending strictly on the trauma the let's push past the trauma push past that point and get to a point of like justice where we can see and today instead of still depending on sadness to push us through le. Let this such an. We're leveraging the trauma you have to do something with but we can't just leverage that shit into temporary marches and shit right rappers Coopting movement since draft that really. They didn't put in the leg work to do but they have somewhat of a profile infrastructure already established to get that megaphone out and it's like cool but at the end of the day foundation has to be the most solid foundation with the constant people who were directly impacted by these injustices agree right matt. You got something to bagman see below. That was going through some wall street journal articles on my.
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"The screen actors guild has announced the winners of its sag awards. Npr's bob mondello reports. They could possibly up an oscar calculations for the first time at the sag awards performers of color one in all four acting categories viola davis and the late chadwick. Boseman won best actress and best actor as blues musicians in marinas black bottom daniel polluters fire return as activist. Fred hampton took best supporting actor in judas and the black messiah and as minorities feisty korean grandmother us young yoon won best supporting actress because the screen actors guild represents so many voters at the academy awards. The sags are often regarded as predictors of oscar success last year. The guild awarded best acting ensemble parasite beginning that films march to a best picture. Win at the oscars. This year's award for acting on samba went to trial of the chicago. Seven
Capt. Hunter's Podcast
"fred hampton" Discussed on Capt. Hunter's Podcast
"What's he was active in in labor struggles with white laborers and that was way back states. But i went to. He wouldn't renounce the soviet union. But i think it's it was the fear of someone strong inter african american interacting with your american and forming an alliance and the panthers stood that in oakland especially through eldridge cleaver. That's my thought. That i think is what fred hampton was so dangerous to the powerful because had a kind of. I.
The Nix
"fred hampton" Discussed on The Nix
"When did you think so. Just said note for both these movies. I think we're going to go full spoilers. Because he's are sort of real life events Yeah so we feel less worried. About spoiling sports spoiling them spoiling them work. Yeah i kind of had the same reaction. I i watched a bunch of black panther stuff last year like those an amazing documentary. I think there's one about the panthers specifically what about friend hampton. It is a crazy story especially considering. I think how. They've been framed in so many ways. Like i pop culture machination. It's like oh they were dangerous but you know on the maybe on the right side of history and clearly they were mostly on that history and that's often dis- dangerous to people that are not on the right side history so i. I liked the way that this movie was clearly just grounded in their viewpoint. I feel like we have not seen a lot of that. I mean i feel like we should have way more movies about all of this era and all of the various characters players in this absolutely and i think the keith stanfield really i was reading the other day that he like when a little crazy making this movie like it was really hard for him to come back for making because he plays the ultimate judas like he is really betraying kind of things that really believed in. Yeah i mean as an actor. Here's where i think. The movie failed for me. A little bit is you. Don't get a sense of enough of his character of the real guy. I forget his name but history doesn't care about him that's fine but it's like you know ultimately he didn't care about him. Yeah you don't really get a sense of like This guy was and what made him tick like his. I feel like stanfield. Performance really brings out the conflicted feeling of okay. I'm a little bit intrigued violence. And i understand why it would help me as somebody who's basically resorting to shitty crimes or whatever and shaking down gangs and a fake fbi badge. But it's sort of like. I don't know the transition i feel a little letdown a screenplay of like who is this guy right. That's an interesting story. Because i understand. Why shocker kings latched onto it. It's sort of like the ultimate sort of judas story. But i don't know i just i don't know i almost rather seen more about fred hampton which i think has been really celebrated in now man ole stuff i mean i knew fred hampton was. I mean we grew up in oakland. Black panther lor is. It's taught you know it's like one of the few places where you know we had malcolm x. Elementary school we were taught. The history of you know true. Black history of of true leaders. Even though the rest of the united states wouldn't necessarily call them. That was but i was maybe my teachers to win it..
Popcorn with Peter Travers
Daniel Kaluuya on new movie 'Judas and the Black Messiah'
"Walk to popcorn where we tell you what's happening at the movies and there's a movie now called judas and the black mesa. That's so good that will you can watch it now. You need to finish watching me. Daniel speak but when you see it you're going to see something extraordinary and you're going to see my guest today. Daniel columbia in a really amazing performance where he brings the spirit of someone to life and that someone is fred hampton. So congratulations to you. Then on i think most markets in what. I realized this is the very months for years ago. That get out opened yeah. I'm glad humphry as of that black comfort. Low two years a year off. The gal black pants came out in february has very much every year. You're just working in working in doing this. And you've got that oscar nomination after we last talked to. Are you just impossible. Now had you become A complete tyrant on the set. I think i was always a tyrant allowed. This kind of spaceman allowed me to be more tyrant. So i just i just like you know. I liked ice cubes. In one cup blueberries in another and then some soda in. And i don't even like soda but i just wanna be ir like a roman tyrant. I don't wanna be like a new. I on the roman like the old that that's own. You know what. I mean when something like that happens and of course you had done so much work you know in england theater. You scanned you. Were doing all of this stuff. But get out was a kind of a breakthrough that changed your life. Didn't it change my life. You changed my life a lot to catch up to that or with me. Like only think eli lawshield. Go up to happen with go in all that time in an all the things you've done whether you're did black panther whether you did queen it slam whether you were in widows this working with the most amazing people and doing incredible things and in this case of with judas and the black messiah. You're playing this real person. Fred hampton so fred hampton. We know and i think here in america to it was yes. He was the guy that led the black panther party in chicago and new annoy. He was the head of it and died. Tragically young. and that's what we know. We know those two things and finally. There's a movie that says he had and he had a spear any had something that was happening. How did you get attached to it. That's the on on the set of a powerful on reshoots ryan and zinzi kuebler Produces film to decide and say. Oh we we're making a film about fred hamilton. Love to be bothered a mess. Chairman fred keith is is in it as well Unshackle king is directed. Just feel alive. Kim i really their intentions and reasons really spoke to and so it was that i was like i just felt really on that the full of me in that way and they will let y'all send your treatment. They sent me a toothpaste treatment. Which is incredible and i met with shock in new york during the get out. What's he's not. You may have one of the tricks. setting on with you on that same trip. I sat down with shackle. So like i said that masako spoke on. I loved him as a person. I loved his reasons than would season off the oscars the first script i read judas nabet messiah and then i would say less. So what do you do. When you're playing this guy who we know of as a more of a symbol than a human being and that you have to create him as he is. How do you go about doing that. Which you do so brilliantly. Thank you solo work on the web but was kind of taken As a as a man you know and finding finding why felt he loved understanding why he loved him loudly loved and who loved him Of him you know the humanity politics is is like he has to have so much love so much karen in one food actualization black people in the black community in order to say these things in these ways like the speeches. I just felt like this identity in a remarkable man Amanda is to be remarked upon. But he is. He's a man. And i feel like brandon him. His humanity kind of puts into context his muddle
Pop Culture Leftovers
"fred hampton" Discussed on Pop Culture Leftovers
"Apologized. Stephanie do you have every right to say that. yeah i know. I'm i knew almost none of this story. But like i left what was over. I agree with what jake saying with. the bill meals character at times felt bad at times you hated the guy by the end. I really could not stand him by the anger because what happens if the direct result of head of a decision that he makes and so at the end talk him and i was like fight the power. I left all angry like nice. I was just like this will be happening wrapped up. I was googling lake the characters that the real life characters and just to find out a little bit more about it. I think that. I think this was an important story to tell and i think it was really well. I think we'll keep stanfield was great Unfortunately i think for me. I think daniel khalil's performance. And i don't know how closely he how i don't know how closely he was able to imitate the actual fred hampton. But unfortunately think that okay. I think he was able fantastic job. I think that kind of overshadowed the keith stanfield performance at times But i think he did a great job. I i definitely He pulled me into the story that they were trying to tell about him. An fbi informant. And i think he did a great job. But i get the that's awesome. That's awesome i. I really enjoy this movie. I think that everybody should be watching this. And then stick around for like you know the credits. Because there's no real footage of the interviews with bill you and like it made me wanna go seek out and watch that that special that That that one and only interview So that's something that. I'm going to be seeking out to see if i can watch that anywhere. There is a darkness to that after that interview aired bill. O.'neil.
Pond's Feed
"fred hampton" Discussed on Pond's Feed
"All. They're always my favorite scenes. Could see though Subtly vicious and ferocious but he's also not in charge you know like he's taking. This is from his boss and he's coming here and he's acting like he's the bottlers just so damn yet. he he will be transformed. I didn't even notice it was him. You know he was. he was Fred hampton and i totally believable and Yeah the girl. She did a phenomenal job. Dominic dominique she did. She was so good. I think she. She's in the oscar races. Oh this is this.
90.3 KAZU Programming
The Lucas Bros, Using Humor 'To Shake Folk Woke'
"Kenny and Keith Lucas are stand up comedians and identical twins. People don't have to react when I see twins. No. Okay, they go crazy like we were in the supermarket looking for some Jell O. Yeah. And we're just about to pick it out. And then some dude came out of nowhere. It was like, you know, you guys have a stick of Doublemint gum. That's from their 2017. Netflix special Lucas brothers were having a moment right now they're writing and starring in a remake of Revenge of the Nerds, But they also wrote the story for the new movie Judas and the Black Messiah. The film premieres today in theaters and on HBO. Max NPR's Elizabeth Blair has this profile. The Lucas brothers are best known for a kind of stoner humor. And here's a rule of thumb You should never do. Shrooms wouldn't do Who looks like you, man. I'm telling you. But underneath the jokes, there's a serious side that draws heavily on their childhood in the housing projects of Newark, New Jersey, called the Garden spires is you always, you know, broken elevators infested with rats and rotten Drug dealing violence everywhere, But you know, there's a community that is people that there's families is my family When they were six years old there, Dad went to prison. My father actually is out of prison. He's not in prison anymore, and it sucks that he's out. I wish he was still there. Oh, yeah. I wanted to go back because all he wants to do is father's sight. Don't like do we pay rent? Now it's over. The Lucas Brothers connection to Newark got the attention of New Jersey Senator Cory Booker in 1999, then a Newark City councilman, Booker went on a hunger strike in front of the Garden spires. He also served as the city's mayor. Here's Booker talking to the Lucas brothers on his instagram. I love your insightful, hard hitting humor and the sort of the Eddie Murphy and S O. My great heroes Coming up, you know, were uncompromising how they used humor to shake folks woke like book arm. Keith and Kenny Lucas went to law school and why you and Duke, But unlike Booker, they dropped out. It was weird Tonto Study law and and kind of be poor and black because it's like, Oh, I see what The consequences of policy and law are like on a daily basis, and especially when it in relation to African Americans and the notion of criminality and how it's projected onto blacks and I see that process. I found myself sort of disengaged very early. I always said, you know what I want to do something that has a direct impact on people. From an emotional standpoint, Judas and the Black Messiah is very emotional. Lucas brothers were in college when they first learned about Fred Hampton, the charismatic leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party in the 19 sixties in the movie he's played by Daniel Cholula, Mother Liberating You can't Murder Liberation is another revolutionary, but you can't murder a revolution for murder Freedom fighter, but you get amount of freedom. He's the Black Messiah. Judas is William O'Neal, an African American who was arrested for interstate car theft and Impersonating a federal officer in the movie. We see how the FBI recruited O'Neill to avoid jail time and earn some money. He was instructed to infiltrate the Black Panther Party. And provide the FBI with information about Hampton O'Neill is played by like Keith Stanfield Target You Like some good information, some nobody else No. Is it some kind of bonuses? I'm I'm counting on it. Bill O'Neill became so much of a Panther insider. He was put in charge of security. He provided the FBI with a floor plan of Hampton's apartment in 1969. The Chicago police raided the apartment and killed two Black Panther leaders, including Hampton for the Lucas Brothers. It was essential to tell the story of how the FBI recruited informants in the black community. I think it's important to see just how insidious The system has been in turning young African Americans against one another. Now they Essentially used poor black people against poor black people to execute their goals of minimizing the threat of black messiah is like we just felt it was important to see both sides of the coin. Whether it's a historical drama or its stand up comedy for the Lucas Brothers. It all comes from the same source in a big thing about our act is that we we always try to ground it and stuff that we've gone through, and it's always been Important for us to talk about these systemic issues and a variety of ways. Now they're writing and will star in Seth McFarland reimagining of 1980 four's Revenge of the Nerds Practice a bunch after school. They called US nerds. So one cool. The Lucas brothers promise that their movie will be almost nothing like the original because times have changed. It's like the juxtaposition of being a bully and a nerd is so different from what it was like in the eighties, where you had this one, a stark dichotomy between what it was bullying what it was to be a nerd. Now that's been fused together, and I think That's why the time is right to make a story about that. The Lucas brothers say it's hard to watch the original revenge of the nerds. Even though the movie was a childhood staple. They're excited to give it an update and to make it personal. Elizabeth Blair. NPR news
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"fred hampton" Discussed on KFI AM 640
"Sixties on leader Fred Hampton. And what happened and it's a fascinating story. It's absolutely fascinating story that I did not know. Well acted by Keith Stanfield and Daniel Kalu. You're from Get out. And it's also well directed, and it's just has not taken off at the SAG Award nominations and the Golden Globe nomination. It's gotten a couple but not not in the way that I thought it would. So it'll be out this weekend. You can judge for yourself like you said HBO. Max. It's also in theaters where you can actually go to theaters. Yeah, not here. All right. How about Minori? Uh, minori is a This is one that's really been getting a lot of buzz. And I think a lot of the buzz is not necessarily been fair because it is a Korean language film, mostly Korean language film. Set in America. It's getting a lot of comparisons to parasite because I think of the Korean language connection, but they're two very completely different films. This is about a family in the 19 eighties who moves from California to Arkansas to start a farm. And take on the American dream, and it's basically a simple is that it's beautifully done. The acting is fantastic. It's funny. It's sweet. It's heartbreaking. It's got all that stuff, and it's expected to possibly some people say could win the Oscar for best picture. Oh, I don't know if I would go that far. Just given. I don't know how this year's race is going to shape up. I really don't at this point, but Um, it'll probably be on the list. And finally, what about land? This is they directorial debut for Robin Wright? Yes, And she also stars in it. She plays a woman who's so consumed with grief. That she moves to the Rockies and says, Forget society. I want to be alone in the Rockies, which could be grief for it Could be 2021, You know, either way, it's all the same on She is. Look, This is a tough thing for Robin Wright to director Director directorial debut because it is set in the Rockies in the wilderness. It is cold. They're actually we're not shooting in the Rockies. They were in Alberta, Canada, which made it even colder on Do you see that coldness on screen? It's beautiful. The mountains in the wilderness and everything is absolutely beautiful here. Cinematographer did a great job. Think helping her here because it's tough direct a movie on your own, especially when you're starring in it, But it's a great performance from are also not getting the awards tension. I thought it might, but she's very good in it. All right. Good stuff this weekend. Jason have a wonderful Valentine's Day when you finally do celebrate it. Thank you. You too. Hey, thanks. See you later. This is King of Ik O. S. C. H D to Los Angeles. The second wreck.
Morning Edition
Finding the Judas in Judas and the Black Messiah
"The 19 sixties, Fred Hampton was chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party. He was a rising leader, organizing disparate multi racial groups in Chicago. Until police shot and killed him and another Black Panther member in an early morning raid. There's a new movie about Fred Hampton out this week, it is called Judas and the Black Messiah. It's not a question of ball. It's a non violence is a question of resistance to fascism or non existence within fascism Film got rave reviews after its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last week. It's the second feature from director Shaka King who, until this project came along, was on the verge of giving up making feature films altogether. MPR's Andrew Lyne bonked takes it from here. Yes, Judas and the Black Messiah is about Fred Hampton and how he led the Black Panthers in Chicago. But it's also about William O'Neill, the man who infiltrated the Black Panthers in spied on Hampton on behalf of the FBI. Shaka King told me that the Lucas Brothers who co wrote the story, sold the idea to him like this. Their pitch that they laid out was we want to make a movie about Fred Hampton and William O'Neal. That's kind of like the departed the 2006 Martin Scorsese movie Inside the World of Cointelpro, or Counterintelligence program, the 19 sixties project where the FBI infiltrated and disrupted groups like the Black Panthers, and I was like I see it. I'm done. I'm in Judas is a tight, intense movie. Yes, like the departed and other Scorsese type crime movies. It's a long way, though, from King's first feature film newly weeds from 2013. So what you got here? Newly weeds tells the story of a young couple in Brooklyn who smoke a lot of weed where Judas is loud and fast. Really? Weeds is quiet and tender. I'm done. I'm done online. Won't want Wanna hang out. We hang up. Yeah. How are we supposed to go to the Galapagos? If you mind the bag every two minutes. It hits similar beats as movies by other indie darling directors like Joe Swanberg or the Duplass Brothers. The film Independent Spirit Awards even gave King the Someone to watch award after it came out, which came with a $25,000 grant. Not bad for someone fresh out of N Y. U film school. But after that initial fanfare, I was so depressed after making newly weeds and my expectations for the release just not coming to fruition. The movie didn't get much attention outside the festival circuit from agents and distributors, largely because it was a movie with black actors who no one knew on at that time that was deemed worthless. The film's release in 2013 wasn't that long ago, but it was just before what a friend of Kings jokingly dubbed. The Black Excellence Industrial Complex. You're Selma's and Moon Lights and Black Panthers when movie studios realized they could make a lot of money by releasing films by and starring black people. Nearly weeds. Loss of momentum burnt king out on the idea of making another feature film, But he did have an idea for a short rolling around in his head. It was kind of silly kind of outrageous, sweetheart. Lips. Excuse me, miss. It's called Moon Yang's after the Italian slur for black people want heard on the streets of Brooklyn in it, King and two others play these three black guys who talk like they're in the mom movies. King has such a fondness for It was somewhat inspired by King's experience growing up in a mostly black part of Brooklyn, but going to high school in South Brooklyn, where everyone the Irish Americans, Greek Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, all talks like the Italian American kids, and those kids were Hilarious. They were profane. They were quick witted, and we were not friends put like I could appreciate their sense of humor. The movie is a concise examination of race, gender gentrification. As King's character gets into an argument with his sister over a MetroCard, you did not have a dime. Put 1000 until the white guy comes by and says hi to the sister. Hi. How you doing? How are you? You guys just don't know what both outta here. Oh, Polluted the movie is fun and poignant, and the process reminded King how much he loved making movies. That movie saved me. You saved me. I didn't see that or know that about Shaka. But I could understand, and I could see how that could happen. Charles de King, no relation to director Shocking is the CEO and founder of Macro which since its founding in 2015 has produced movies and TV shows featuring non white people, including Judas and the Black Messiah. It was before the oscarssowhite moment. Of 2015. There's a lot that's happened since then. There is much more of an openness and I think an understanding of the business opportunity there. Which brings us to King today, making a movie about an anti capitalist black radical at a very capitalist Hollywood studio without watering down the politics. The deal is to respect the authenticity. Fred Hampton Jr is the current chairman of the Black Panther Party, Cubs and son of Fred Hampton. He says he and the other Panthers had their guards up when they were approached about this film. The Panthers have long been subjected to propaganda campaigns and misrepresentations. But he says King and the rest of the cast and crew definitely navigated the crossroads between their creative goals and the Panthers. Political ones. Well enough, anyway. Revolutionaries never satisfied. You know, I wish there was more political cartoon. We could've pushed. In a certain point, However, I'll put the people's need before before my needs my wants and desires. For instance, the relationship between Fred Hampton and his partner, Deborah Johnson, was a tricky thing to get right. The poet.
WHAS 840 AM
"fred hampton" Discussed on WHAS 840 AM
"Yeah, my pieces coming out tomorrow. I mean, I don't know if they'll change the title of it. But, you know, I called it What Serious study of black history really teaches us. No Charlie Black History Month is upon us again. Black History Month started Black History Week in 1926 with Carter T. What's in who really talks about how important the study of history is not just for black people for all people, but particularly for black because we've been so mischaracterized, just like black women have been And I'm starting with the supposition that just like many things in a declining anti intellectual society, Black history month has been emptied out. It's been turned into, you know, shallow program obligatory proclamation. And fill in social media posts on people who don't know the damn difference between Frederick Douglass and Fred Hampton. And my argument is that we need to do something a little bit different this year. Actually study American history because you can't study American history without studying black people's contributions to it, And I think that would yield some type of reward. So that will be out tomorrow online and the courage to imprint in my normal Sunday space in the in the Sunday paper for people to read. Looking forward to that. And you were right. It seems like over the last 5 to 10 years, the Black history month with social media addition you know, in addition into the culture, so many people are just trying to post things just to say, Oh, my God, it's February 23rd. What am I gonna do today? And they're posting anything. To try and make it look like they're validating something that I don't really feel or know about. Yeah, well, you know, look, the school systems across this country have done us no favors. They haven't thought of any serious history of block about America period and definitely not about black folks. And so you know, uneducated Children become uneducated adults. That's just where it is. We all think individually and collectively have to take it upon ourselves to engage Educational Project B gon formal education, especially in that area from hoping this report. This is a problem. I'm hoping everybody will read a little bit and I'll be pissed off, you know, send me notes and all that stuff because you know, Terry, especially Joe. Listen, man, I could go out in the street and say 150 babies. And somebody would say, What's wrong with you? Ricky Jones. You're racist for saving those babies. God wanted him to die. Wouldn't put him in the street, so I don't know what to do about that. But I'm doing all like there and help educate focus moving forward. They would say, why did you only save 150? There was 152 of them out. There knows a lot of words. All right, lovey brother talked against him. I love you back my man face Dr Ricky Jones. He's chair of Pan African studies at the University of Louisville. All state now has deeper savings and deeper.
MTR Network Main Feed
"fred hampton" Discussed on MTR Network Main Feed
"Best actor in this film. Did this film everybody wanted. Everybody gonna put this naked chokehold. Get you on that. But no i don't think i don't think he's gonna become to that. I think you know. I mean that's clear i mean he. No he definitely should get the support. I feel like they did a great job. But i also feel like because this isn't a fred. Hampton film about lakeith keeps character. What do i know about chicago. And i thought they handled that really well and you and i could i gotta i gotta push back on that one. I think when you say that it's not a for him to film. Let's go off in the film. It is like my f- it absolutely is. It is absolutely afraid hampton and chicago held on it. But it's no it is but his told told from from from a bill was a bill o'neal's point of view but it absolutely is fred hampton in chicago and by panther film. It absolutely is stuff in there like you added a bunch of qualifiers on the internet. And i'm telling ya without without qualification. This is the fred hampton film. i can't i. Can't i can't follow you down now in. I am helping. I'm helping day. You collusion this. Because it's already made at u k. America black american. I'm to entertaining that. I cannot think of another person who could have embodied what we needed for this story. They retaliate who i don't. Who would have done as well and bidders believable to me. i don't care. I don't feel like we have cats. I'm not saying there isn't somebody. I'm not saying there isn't somebody. I'm saying i'm happy with the do they gave me riots ivory henry could. It did this. I'm not saying and that's not the undercut daniel wrong. He says the visibly looks the wrong age. Regalia kolui does not look like for hampton at all. So i didn't want to say he looked like fred hampton. Say the bryant. Henry doesn't even look like he's anywhere. Close to the age fred. hampton would have been at this point in his life. Daniel twenty one. I'm just saying we have one and bring to. I don't i i. I didn't say that there weren't other people who could do it. I said i'm happy and satisfied with the person that they gave me. I liked the way that they worked in and introduced fred in this. I like the fact that we got a more expansive in a more grounded. Look at who he was and what his role was and how he developing how he moved to chicago and they blew out and gave us a look at what was happening in chicago and gave us an idea and they managed to do without a single damn bit of trauma porn and pandering. So this is a fred hampton story but a lot of people only know fred hampton to folklore. And that's not what this movie was. So yeah it's not from. We didn't get this movie. From the perspective of fred hampton because quite frankly can't everything that we know about him it's from someone who standing to the left or to.
Democracy Now! Audio
"fred hampton" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"These people. That's the trailer for judas. and the black messiah. the film has its virtual premier. Tonight at the sundance film festival will be in theaters streaming on mac starting february twelfth. That's directed by shock a king who co wrote the script joining us now from brooklyn. Welcome to democracy now shock. This is an opus. it is a masterpiece. Congratulations talk about. Why you chose fred. Hampton and william o'neil. The informant is the subject of this film. Well the first of all thanks have made in thank you the current words of you know the the idea actually brought to me by Two friends of mine. The lucas brothers And they reached out to me And basically said you know we have this idea. to make the departed inside the world cohen pro. And i just thought that that was a very clever vessel in kind of Intelligent way to sort of trojan horse of fred hampton biotech and introduce the world. You know a great great segment of the world who is unaware of you who he was and was highly unaware of the panthers. Politics the allergy. And you know obviously as people know that there's just been so much negative propaganda about the The panthers as an organization that that you know. I just thought it was not to kind of correct. The record in put it couch it. In sort of this jonah movie that would go wide to the masses as opposed to you know just focus on people who already or aware and your decision to actually to try to humanize will the mo neil the undercover agent showing the conflicts within him as well. It reminds me very much of another undercover agent in new york city. Eugene roberts who was under security detail malcolm x. was killed and who was a key figure in the panther twenty one trial because he infiltrated not only malcolm xs organization but the panther party as well also at individual torn in terms of his role. Could you could you talk about your decision to make william o.'neil such a key figure of the film. Yeah well you know for me. It wasn't hard to unite them. Because at the end of the day you know human beings who make these decisions and you know As opposed to son of handing him as just the villainous character that everyone can kinda easily dismiss. I think you know making him. You know more complex in the visual it gives an audience and opportunity this sort of put themselves in that position in kind of and ultimately interrogate the choices that you make because to me you know one of the upsides of making the movie about william o'neil and fred handling it talking about two people kind of exist on the polar unanimity. You know what i mean. You're talking about like the opposite. Literally have exceeded capitalist. Angie in william have deep-seated socialist ideology in fred hansen. You have one of the most brave human beings of all time and you. Have you know. A person demonstrated incredible cowardice. You know so given individualist you have. A person is a massive building coalitions of new people to two very different definitions of power and freedom and so it was just an opportunity to kinda explore in these two. Like i said polar opposite of the allergies than put the viewer have place where at the end of the movie. They kind of have to five. Ideally have to Ideally find yourself questioning. Like where do i fall between these two assesses essentially you also spend a considerable time in the film exploring how fred hampton sorts of make alliances with a group other than african americans in terms of building a rainbow coalition really which the predecessor to jesse jackson's rainbow coalition. Fred hampton's rainbow coalition. Talk about that as well. Sure i mean you know. I think that was obviously one of the things that made trident than i think. The the pants overall was their willingness to Just coalition though not just with other black led organizations but also you know poor whites with latin americans. I mean we kind of we. The focus of the movie isn't that but it was it would have been. It wouldn't have made sense historically to exclude that but it also i think kind of shows in the movie not to spoil it. But you know. It's when fred hampton starts to really build coalitions with those you know white and latino groups that he really really comes true threat to the powers that be and i think especially in a city like chicago That stoically has been so deeply segregated That was like unheard I think the reason include that is just a testament to his power But it's also just historically accurate and it's so interesting to have you on shock as well. As one co host of democracy now but one of the co founders of the young lords one when fred hampton was assassinated in his own bed along with mark clark the impact it had on you and the young lords well yes clearly there were lords in chicago as well as some of the young lords in new york who had worked closely with fred hampton specifically pablo bubbles. Mind was working with a couple of months before he was killed so it was felt across the nation at fred half that was already seen as really one of the one of the leaders nationwide of the panther party and and so his murder really was a shock throughout the country and there were many protests. Not just in chicago but across the country against the his assassination. I wanted to go there to clips. Because what's happened this weekend with this film premiering at the sundance film festival and the first day of black history month i wanted to turn to daniel colusa the Who played chairman. Fred hampton talking about the scene in which he delivers the speech one of his largest most diverse audiences.
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"fred hampton" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"New york this is democracy now the swat theme single greatest threat to our national security. Our counterintelligence program must prevent the rise of black messiah as black history month begins. We look back at the assassination of black panther leader. Fred hampton in chicago fifty one years ago the stories retold in a new feature film judas and the black messiah premiering at sundance film festival. Today we'll speak with the director. Shock king and longtime civil rights attorneys jeff passan flint taylor who uncovered new details about fred hampton's caroline. We have filed new documents that show that not only was the chicago. Fbi behind the murderers rate of fred hampton but j. edgar hoover and his trusted lieutenants. We're also aware of the goings on in chicago and rewarded the fbi informant and his control agent for setting out the murderous raid that i we look at the growing campaign to oust the far-right queuing on conspiracy theorists republican congress member marjorie taylor green of georgia who wants endorsed the execution of speaker. Nancy pelosi green was recently picked by the republican leadership to serve on the education committee signing her to the education permitted when she has mocked the killing of little children at sandy hook. Elementary school when she has mocked the killing of teenagers in high school at the marjory stoneman douglas high school..
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White People Talking About Whiteness
"Guys many, if not most white people don't think of themselves as racialist race, we might tell ourselves is a reality for people who have different skin colors than ours Black People Hispanic people, Asian people, Indigenous People, etc, but of course white is a race. Quick important side note here. Race is not a biological thing. It is socially constructed. Sadly the white people who seem to have most clearly grasped that white is race or white nationalists. But now it is time for the rest of US white people to actually see whiteness and to talk to each other about it. This many people in the racial justice world would argue. Is the key first step toward white people engaging fully in creating a more equitable society. My guest today is Eleanor Hancock. She's the executive director of group called White, awake which employs and I'm quoting here educational resources and spiritual practices. To engage white people and I'm quoting here again in the creation of just and sustainable society an quote. Eleanor was recommended to me by seven Selassie, who's one of the court teachers on the ten percent happier APP, and was on the show last week, and really powerful episode which I recommend you check out. In this episode Eleanor, and I talk about why this work is so important. Why so many white people resist it? The barriers white people face when they actually do begin the work. The role of meditation, and the problematic aspects of white woke kness in the discussions here we go eleanor Hancock. Nice to meet you virtually. Thanks again for doing this absolutely. So I'd be curious to hear how you came to this work. How and why you can't? I would star with just a little bit about my background and the different stages in my life that have led up to it. I grew up in West Texas. kind of a mid sized city very conservative environments. I'm solid GENENTECH's so I, didn't I was we had an integrated public school system? But that said there's I think a lot of kind of just default segregation that happens socially so I developed awareness of the differences that folks of color the differences of their experiences in the united. States in particular verses, my experience as a white person that began to happen for me in graduate school. It was a variety of different circumstances that led to that. One of them like. Having a roommate that was reading the autobiography of Asada Shukor, and just realizing I, knew about I knew about Amnesty International and that there could be folks who are imprisoned for political reasons, but I it was shocking to me to realize that was something that happened here in the United States, and then the other thing is very influential to me to jump in I. Hate interrupting my guest, but it might be worth explaining a little bit of a Sasha core in that back story just oh! So she's. Part of the Black Panthers and during this entire time period where the FBI. was, targeting civilians through their coin tell pro program and a lot of just extreme aggression on many different levels, including the outright murder of Fred Hampton while he was sleeping in his bed at night, and it was a really it was a political assassination, and during that time period they were able to capture Asada and create these charges against her that kept her in prison for a long time and. She escaped to Cuba. All of that history I would really encourage people to read about that. You can look up quantel pro and the FBI and understand. The destruction that occurred to a lot of the movements that brought a so much during the sixties, the fifties, sixties and seventies the ways that they were destroyed. And part of what happens when you infiltrate and destroy a movement from within is. All only harm it. Externally you create so much paranoia and violence within that then people also began to destroy one another in different ways, so in terms of my own. You know just how I came to this work I try not to Belabor the story too much, but I was in a series of classes and graduate school with a Chicano professor who was teaching performance our, and this was in the late nineties and I really. Learned a lot about what at the time we would have simply called identity politics through art. So. Yeah, being part of those performance art classes for the entire time. I was in graduate school, was really an eye opener that was also during this apetit Easter rebellion, and so we were all just starting to get online, and that was part of it was incredible about that time period. APETIT ZAPPA of southern Mexico, who are indigenous people who had risen up against their own governments specifically in response to Nafta the North American. Free Trade Agreement. And there are a lot of aspects of my world view that developed during that time period, and then as I lived in my life. You know I have a biracial daughter. Her father's African American during the time that we were married I had the privilege of spending a lot of time with his family and developing strong relationships with them, and experiencing myself as the minority I think that that's a unique experience that not every a lot of people don't have that opportunity to be inside of somebody else's space racially speaking and have to understand their norms and their experience and adapt to that. I think that's a really valuable experience.
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Dr. Aldon D. Morris Discuss History of Sociology Pertaining to Black America
"John Leo Hinton Junior and welcome to another edition up in black miracle on news leaks program Doctor Alden. Moore's professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University and president elect of the American Sociological Issue Logical Association in Black America. Many of the early white sociologists were actually quite racist and they preached that that in in many ways that black people were inferior and therefore they deserve to be at the bottom of the society because of their meager talents and intellect. So they did not pay much attention to the horrific Jim Crow period period of slavery. And so on. And so what that means is that the factors like oppression and Discrimination and Terence fourth and not bigger into their now about why black people face so much why they were and why they were at the bottom of society and And and this might be interesting you but the first to sociology books were actually written all race actually written by two I believe they were white. Mississippi and established in one thousand nine hundred. Five small group led by Lester. Ward William Grand something to Franklin Jennings and Albion small at a meeting any of the American Economic Association. The American Sociological Association held his first meeting the following year in Providence Rhode Island the membership in in one thousand nine hundred sixty two at one hundred fifteen for the first several decades the activities of the society or sending on publishing a journal holding an annual annual meeting and performing various administrative functions. Such as record keeping sending out communications and so forth and forty nine the first executive executive officer was appointed on a part time basis and in one thousand nine hundred sixty three. The Association established permanent headquarters in Washington. DC since the organization was founded. There has only been three African American presidents PRYATTA. More selection. Dr Al and Moore's will be the one hundred twelfth president of the American Sociological Association. He was served one year as president-elect and then become president of the Association in August Twenty Twenty he has taught at northwestern university. Since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight I was born and raised and Wyler Mississippi. Then I left and when I was twelve thirteen years old to and moved to Chicago and has lived in Chicago most of my life. I'm currently in in Chicago. Oh went to school and Peoria Illinois then I don't Long Island New York first job with the University of Michigan which has stayed about eight years and then I moved to North Western University. And I've been there ever since came to North Western in nineteen eighty eight idea about your childhood. Oh my childhood well. I was born in Jim Crow Mississippi. And I remember that I was just a boy I was six years old. When Emmett till was lynched He was lynched only about twenty miles. From where we we live. live with my grandparents and it had a tremendous impact on me and my generation. Some of us now refer to it as the Emmett till generation and I I remember going to the Colored School Having to sit on the back of buses Drink from Colored Water Fountains and do be be insulted and all kinds of ways especially my grandparents Were very strong people and I as a boy. I didn't understand why they were being called a boy aunt. And all of this kind of stuff so I experienced Jim Crow Racism in the heart of the South and Rural Mississippi. And then of course we were my mother and her siblings. Almost all of them have been part of the great migration and so they always lived in Chicago. Saint Louis and Milwaukee Detroit other places and so I as a little boy. I thought that The North was really really the promised land that they were really gold streets and milk and honey and all of that and so I also knew that I was going to come to Chicago once my elderly grandparents. It's passed and when they did. I was shocked with a double dose of new racism the the northern version. And so I you know I went to finished elementary school in Chicago. A went to community college and Chicago worked in factories in Chicago and And experienced a great deal love Racism and so on and Chicago of course This was the early seventy they sixties. The civil rights movement was still going on on the black power movement in particular was raging and so Also would assist that. They're the change could happen because I wouldn't have those movements and when I saw on television what was happening in the civil rights movement and all I. I grew up with a lot of hope. I thought we were going to change this thing. I had no idea that we would be where we are here. In the twenty thirty first century now you grew up in Chicago doing the radio station. WBO winds high days and allies Mohammed. And Jesse Jackson Operation Pushing Russian mayor. Daley tell us about that experience. It was a very A very rich rich experience by the time I was in Chicago. UGH Oh well I. I witnessed these a lot of the civil rights movement. The march on Washington and The Birmingham confrontation on television. 'cause I was in Chicago. Oh I was deeply influenced by Martin Luther King Junior and And then of course here in Chicago Jesse Jackson was his protege and so ooh I participated in protests and marches and so on that involved him and many many others Chicago was a very very Rich kind of Environment Like now it has some of the best and the worst tendencies of America and I went to a predominantly Lee White High School Where we were not as like people like students we were not considered to be smart? We were not considered to be college materials and so we weren't prepared appeared to they. They did not teach us to be those things and But yes I mean on on. You could drive down one street and park in front of me. Elijah Muhammad's house and you can go on a little bit east and you'll be at Jesse Jackson's headquarters and and so you know operation breadbasket is getting all of that. I do vaguely remember when Dr King about the Movement to Chicago in nineteen sixty six and there were marches for fair a housing and there was some of the most racist outpouring that the nation has ever seen When in one of those margins Dr King was hit upside the head with a brick and he said Ed that you know? I've been in Birmingham and I've been Montgomery. I've been in Mississippi but I've never seen the kind of racism that I'm experiencing here in Chicago so it was a mixed bag growing up here. I mean on the one hand. It was a vibrant strong rich black community. You know we had ebony and jet and all of the Black businesses the one that we had so many movements going on and and leaders both young and old. I was in community college when Fred Hampton and Mark Clark where fascinated they were black panthers and And that was the first time I saw Jesse Jackson in person. He came to my community college. I'll southeast junior colleges. In the end he spoke to us and And and I was like wow man. This is one of the most powerful individualism was ever heard so I remain active on movements but also You know Had never no one in my immediate family. That never gone to college so I didn't have any plans to go to college and And then the Vietnam war start raging and and I was working in Spiegel's warehouse and And I knew I didn't want to go to Vietnam and I ended up going to a community. Unity College us. Because then you could get for with the ferment. Kept you out of the service for a little while so so I did that and that was. That was the very beginning. Some of my college experience I in fact With somewhat afraid to go to community college because you know Com being a first generation student. I thought that everybody was going to be so much smarter than me. And then I was GonNa say things get laughed at it and all of that but I I went on. There was still more appealing. Attractive to meet and go into Vietnam and so I went. I went to a community college and I started reading. Do Boards and Margaret Walker and David Walker Peel. And all that kind of
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Bobby Seale, Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn on Police Repression, Fred Hampton Murder & Prison Strike
"Sir. This is democracy. Now democracy now or the warrant piece report. I'm Amy Goodman with one gun solace with part two of today's edition of fifty years ago that right fifty years ago this week, the nineteen sixty eight democratic national convention in Chicago became a national spectacle as a major political event turned into chaos that culminated with a police riot, much of it unfolding on live national television. While Hubert Humphrey was nominated as the democratic candidate in nineteen sixty eight inside despite the fact he didn't run in any primaries outside was where the news was where police were clubbing teargassing thousands of protesters. For more. We continue our interviews with Bobby Seale founding chairman, Black Panther party was in the protests at the beginning in Chicago. Bill Ayers was arrested on August twenty seven fifty years ago and Bernardine Dohrn both Bernardine and Bill longtime activists for peace and racial Justice, former SDS that students for a democratic society and whether underground members. I mean, he Goodman with Juan Gonzalez one? Yes. Yes. With Bobby Seale again to follow up a Bobby on the conversation. We were having that the end of our previous segment when you were talking about how once Richard Nixon was elected president, he ordered. His aides to begin immediate eradication of the Black Panther party. One of the interesting things that most people are not aware of is that years later report came out in the New York Times that the f. b. i. had conducted a CPR secret poll among black Americans and found that more than twenty five percent of African Americans were supporters of the Black Panther party felt that the Black Panther party was fighting. Their interest is significant portion of the America of the African American population of this country was supportive of of your revolutionary organization. And yet as you were saying Nixon immediately ordered that you be crushed, could you talk about what happened in that first few years of the Nixon administration to the panther party. Exactly the year of nineteen sixty nine is the year. Now, remember I said he had a meeting with j. Edgar Hoover and Jade ago who were in the December the first week of December stated nationally on television that we were threat to the internal, the blackout, the party is a threat to the internal security of America. Come come. What was February seventeenth seventeenth. John a buddy Carter and John Huggins will murdered at UCLA. They were the leaders of the black path to party and loss Angeles California now. But she Carter really had gotten out of his gang group. 'cause he, he ran a three thousand member gang and he created a political organization call wretched of the earth delay to become and he later became rub. They headed up to southern California chapter the black part in the Los Angeles community. Eric, the what I'm trying to say here is that. That was the first attack on the part of the power structure using the us organization, etcetera. In a conflict situation to kill and murder. The leaders of the Los Angeles chapter, the blackout, the party do that process in the next three or four months. They attack more than twenty two offices I'm talking about in Indiana. I'm talking about the, they blew up the office and demands. I will literally got the crew Clinton of blew up that blow up that building. And I'm telling you. In San Diego brother. Bell was opening up to San Diego office at eight AM in the morning, and the police and FBI came jumped out of cars and came into place and shot him dead killing murdering. So I'm just says that period of tacking by the end of that year with the murder of Fred Hampton and then the shootout in Los Angeles, four days later after that cetera I have in my organization, I had twenty eight dead blackout to party members sixty nine wounded and defending ourselves. We defended ourselves and many of these attacks. By the end of that year, fourteen police were kill because we shot back when they came in shooting in us. We did not play. We shot back