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During her jaw-dropping Super Bowl halftime performance in 2016, Beyoncé didn't just promote her then-new track, "Formation," rife with references to her roots in Alabama and Louisiana. She also paid homage to the Black Panthers, from her military-style jacket to the accompanying phalanx of black beret-wearing women with Afros.
In evoking the Panthers -- and, to no one's surprise, rankling conservatives -- Beyoncé illustrated that the group's hold on the culture at large was as potent as ever, even half a century after Black Power politics became a force to be reckoned with.
In 2021, that grip shows no signs of weakening.
Shaka King's moving new film, "Judas and the Black Messiah," paints a compelling biographical portrait of Fred Hampton (played by Daniel Kaluuya), the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party who in 1969 created the first Rainbow Coalition. Chicago police killed Hampton in a predawn raid later that year.
But the film offers a twist on the biopic genre, chronicling the chairman's tenure largely through the eyes of William O'Neal (Lakeith Stanfield), whom the FBI dragooned into obtaining intel that resulted in Hampton's death.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/j...uring-power-of-the-black-panthers/ar-BB1dEBZh
In evoking the Panthers -- and, to no one's surprise, rankling conservatives -- Beyoncé illustrated that the group's hold on the culture at large was as potent as ever, even half a century after Black Power politics became a force to be reckoned with.
In 2021, that grip shows no signs of weakening.
Shaka King's moving new film, "Judas and the Black Messiah," paints a compelling biographical portrait of Fred Hampton (played by Daniel Kaluuya), the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party who in 1969 created the first Rainbow Coalition. Chicago police killed Hampton in a predawn raid later that year.
But the film offers a twist on the biopic genre, chronicling the chairman's tenure largely through the eyes of William O'Neal (Lakeith Stanfield), whom the FBI dragooned into obtaining intel that resulted in Hampton's death.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/j...uring-power-of-the-black-panthers/ar-BB1dEBZh