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Akua Njeri (formerly known as Deborah Johnson; born 1949/50) is an American writer, activist and former member of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Njeri was present at the December 4, 1969, police raid in which her fiancé, Fred Hampton, and Mark Clark were killed at the Chicago apartment she and Hampton shared.
24 de abr. de 2021 · The 70-year-old now goes by Akua Njeri. She remains a revolutionary, as well as the mother of Hampton’s namesake. She’s seen the Oscar-nominated movie at least 10 times, she told CNN, but...
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- Eliott C. McLaughlin
23 de abr. de 2021 · But there’s no one more deserving of credit for it coming to fruition than Akua Njeri—the former Deborah Johnson—who was both betrothed to and pregnant by Hampton on the fateful pre-dawn morning in 1969 when a phalanx of cops and agents besieged their apartment and shot him dead in his sleep.
12 de feb. de 2021 · In January 1990, activist Akua Njeri attended the funeral of William O’Neal, the man responsible for leaking information to Chicago police that aided in their assassination of her fiancée, Black...
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15 de mar. de 2021 · Shaka King and Akua Njeri on the Making of and History Behind ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’. Bakari also talks to Shaka and Akua about Njeri’s role in advising on the film and why Ryan ...
- Bakari Sellers
6 de mar. de 2023 · The tumultuous American days of the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, and fear of communism serve as a backdrop to Judas and the Black Messiah, a modern tale of Caesar and Brutus. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are household names, but how many have heard the name Fred Hampton or William O'Neal?
25 de feb. de 2021 · William O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield), the FBI informant who provided the information used to organize Fred Hampton’s killing, kept an extremely low profile both before and after Hampton’s...
