CHICAGO (WLS) -- "Judas and the Black Messiah" dramatizes the life and death of Fred Hampton, the former chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party who was killed by Chicago police during a raid on ...

On December 4, 1969, Black Panther Party leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were drugged and murdered by the Chicago Police ...

Events across the Chicago area Wednesday are marking 55 years since Fred Hampton's death. The civil rights leader and Black Panther chairman was killed in a Chicago police and FBI raid, when he was 21 ...

They hope the film "Judas and the Black Messiah" will help people learn more. In the wake of the film "Judas and the Black Messiah," increased attention has been brought to the story of Chairman Fred ...

Daniel Kaluuya portrays Fred Hampton in the upcoming film Judas and the Black Messiah. Ahead of the release of Judas and the Black Messiah, Daniel Kaluuya recently spoke about portraying Fred Hampton, ...

According to Jakobi Williams, a professor and historian, it was Hampton's work with the Rainbow Coalition that led to his assassination On Dec. 5, several events in the City of Chicago are set to ...

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CHICAGO, Illinois (WBBM) — Fred Hampton Sr., a Black Panther Party leader who was shot and killed in Chicago during a 1969 police raid, received an honorary street name on Saturday on the Near West ...

On Hard Knock Radio, host Davey D checks in withChairmanFredHampton Jr. of the Black Panther Party Cubs to unpack the fast-moving situation in Chicago and the wider national climate. From the talk of ...

Chicago native Howard Alk helped found Second City in 1959 and made a name for himself in the ’60s and ’70s as a documentary cinematographer, editor, and director. His debut feature, American ...

MAYWOOD — The Illinois childhood home of Fred Hampton, an iconic Black Panther Party leader who was shot and killed during a 1969 police raid of his Chicago apartment, has been designated a historical ...