UPCOMING EVENTS
MOVIE NIGHTS
MAY 9TH: JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH
@ The BCC, 657 W Saint Mary's. Doors 6:30.
On December 4, 1969, the Chicago police department surrounded the apartment of Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton and shot him while he slept.
Judas and the Black Messiah is a dramatization of his life and death, which also invents a street gang named "The Crowns." This is a stand-in for many groups which took part in Hampton's "rainbow coalition," mostly representing the Puerto Rican nationalist group the Young Lords Organization.