Hello beautiful nerds. For months our team has been working with the team at proximity media

to create a companion podcast for the film Judas and the Black Messiah coming out February 12.

The movie is amazing and the podcast adds so much history and insight. I'm so excited for it

and I hope you'll all subscribe. Here's a preview.

Chairman Fred Hampton was a leader of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party until his

life was cut short on December 4th 1969 when more than a dozen law enforcement officers busted

into his West Chicago apartment in a pre-don raid. Hampton was shot to death in his bed. He was 21

years old. His life inspired the new film Judas and the Black Messiah coming out February 12th

and theaters on HBO Max.

In this official podcast series produced by 99% invisible and proximity media in partnership

with Warner Brothers we're looking at the Black Messiah at the center of the film the real story

of Chairman Fred Hampton. What made Hampton so special that he was anointed as the leader at such a

young age and then targeted in a federal assassination. Join me Elvis Mitchell as we go behind the scenes

with the film's creators including director Shaka King. The whole purpose of the movies to humanize

this individual and these people and the thing is you're trying to humanize someone who was super

human. He didn't sleep. He changed smoke to the draint bottomless cups of coffee. He didn't have

vulnerability. So they had to kill him. And producer Ryan Kugler. I think he made a pressurzer

fray. He was so effective that he was assassinated by the most powerful government on the plan.

Think about something like that. You know you think about being you know so good at something

that the most powerful government in the world is like hey we have to kill this part

and they do and try to snuff out everything about this part. We'll also talk to co-stars

Daniel Caluio, a Keith Stanfield and Dominique Fishback and to real black Panthers who knew

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