Black History Film Series – Judas & the Black Messiah

Judas and the Black Messiah is a 2021 American biographical crime drama film about the betrayal of Fred Hampton (played by Daniel Kaluuya), chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in late-1960s Chicago, by William O’Neal (played by LaKeith Stanfield), an FBI informant. Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback, Ashton Sanders, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Lil Rel Howery, Algee Smith, Dominique Thorne, and Martin Sheen also star. The film is directed and produced by Shaka King, who wrote the screenplay with Will Berson, based on a story by the pair and Kenny and Keith Lucas.

An enlightening discussion about San Antonio’s student activists will immediately follow the film.

ADMISSION IS FREE, BUT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

This program was made possible in part with a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.