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“Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We’re going to have to struggle. We’re going to have to struggle relentlessly to bring about some peace, because the people that we’re asking for peace, they are a bunch of megalomaniac warmongers, and they don’t even understand what peace means.” – Fred Hampton
This painting depicts the apartment of Fred Hampton, an African American activist and the chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party. Kerry James Marshall captures Hampton asleep in bed just before he was shot and killed in an early morning raid by officers from the Chicago Police Department on December 4, 1969.
The painting—at its very core—epitomizes darkness. Composed of shades of black acrylic paint on black fiberglass, the painting is at first nearly indecipherable, revealing itself as your eyes slowly adjust. Asleep in bed, Hampton is depicted as a near invisible man… Hampton’s fiancée and fellow Black Panther, Akua Njeri, pregnant with their first child, has propped herself up in bed, her head turned as if listening.
Does she hear police officers collecting outside their door? Is this the moment before the first shots were fired?
With Black Painting, Marshall positions himself as both artist and archivist, using blackness as both medium and subject matter. The raid, which produced no police indictments, was one of the most controversial events to take place during the Civil Rights Movement.
Black Painting by Kerry James Marshall, at the Met
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Daniel Kaluuya gives an outstanding performance as Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton in the film Judas and the Black Messiah, but can the film do justice to Hampton’s radical politics?
“I dont care how much theory you got, if it don’t have any practice applied to it, then that theory happens to be irrelevant. Right? Any theory you get, practice it. And when you practice it you make some mistakes. When you make a mistake, you correct that theory, and then it will be corrected theory that will be able to be applied and used in any situation. Thats what we’ve got to be able to do.”
Fred Hampton, Olivet Church, 1969
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You can murder a liberator, but you can’t murder liberation. You can murder a revolutionary, but you can’t murder revolution. And you can murder a freedom fighter, but you can’t murder freedom!
Fred Hampton, Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
“This system wants Fred Hampton’s tale to remain untold, his militant memory to fade, his life of service to black folks and the black revolutionary struggle to pass unknown. The media has covered up this recent history, but some remember; perhaps now you will too.
Remember those who have gone before.
Remember those whom the system wants you to forget.
Remember those who fought against this system.
Remember Chairman Fred Hampton, and his assassins!”
-Mumia Abu-Jamal,All Things Censored(2001).
“We said nobody would shoot a Panther but a pig, because Panthers don’t pose a threat to anybody but pigs.” – Fred Hampton
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Blackout for Human Rights is proud to announce that we’re standing with revolutionary Civil Rights Leader and Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton, Fred Hampton Jr. and their family in the fight to purchase, restore and maintain the childhood home of Fred Hampton. Hampton Jr. and Save The Hampton House, Inc. are currently hosting a special GoFundMe to raise the funds needed in order to save their home. Please join us to support the revolutionary Fred Hampton and his family by donating and sharing the GoFundMe page today: http://bit.ly/2ZiCswQ. Together, we have the power to make a difference and support them. The people united will never be defeated.
- “Descendants of iconic African American Chicago figures, like Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Fred Hampton, often struggle to manage the stories of their famous relatives” http://bit.ly/2Zh8RE6 via Chicago Tribune
- “Fred Hampton was considered a uniter by those who knew him. He had managed to broker peace between warring gangs in Chicago and was known for uniting poor black, white and Puerto Rican people.” http://bit.ly/2z78WeP via The Root
- The Sacrifices Of Slain Black Panther Party Leader Fred Hampton And His Family Are A Lesson In Black Love: http://bit.ly/2Z2EEJy via Essence
- “The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther” http://bit.ly/2He07o8 via Democracy Now!
- Black Panther Fred Hampton Created a “Rainbow Coalition” to Support Poor Americans: http://bit.ly/2KGpYXO via Teen Vogue
- “Never forget that the FBI and Chicago Police Department conspired to murder Fred Hampton in his apartment because they were afraid he was creating a multiracial political coalition to challenge those in power. He was just 21 years old.” Clint Smith: http://bit.ly/2Z2kOOM via Newsweek
- “Fred Hampton was born on August 30, 1948 in Summit, Illinois. His parents, Francis Allen Hampton and Iberia Hampton, were Louisiana natives who relocated to Chicago. As a youth, Fred excelled in sports and dreamed of playing baseball. However, he also excelled in the classroom. Hampton ultimately attended Triton College, where he studied pre-law in hopes of helping people of color fight back against police brutality. As a teen, Hampton became involved in civil rights by leading a local NAACP youth council. He helped to grow the council’s membership to more than 500 members.” http://bit.ly/2OYP1th via Thought Co.
- “Despite the evidence provided by ballistics experts showing that police had fired 99 percent of the bullets and had falsified the report on the incident, the first federal grand jury did not indict anyone involved in the raid. Furthermore, even though a subsequent grand jury did indict all the police officers involved, the charges were dismissed.” http://bit.ly/2P4MlL0 via History
- “The FBI convinced a criminal, William O'Neal, to infiltrate the Party and get close to Hampton. O'Neal succeeded in joining the Party, acting as Fred Hampton’s bodyguard and Director of Chapter Security. At the instruction of J. Edgar Hoover, he worked to undermine the coalitions that Hampton had created amongst the neighborhood gangs and organizations - causing a major rift and creating a distrust of the Black Panthers. On the evening of December 3, 1969, O’Neal slipped a powerful sleeping drug into Hampton’s drink then left. Officers were dispatched to raid his apartment. They stormed in and opened fire, killing Mark Clark, acting as his security guard. Then they opened fire on Hampton’s bedroom where he laid unconscious from the drug. Despite the intense round of fire, Hampton and his pregnant fiancee were only wounded. Upon that discovery, an officer shot him twice in his head and killed him. The remaining seven Panthers that were present in the apartment were all arrested and indicted by a grand jury on charges of attempted murder, armed violence, and a variety of weapons charges. These charges were eventually dropped after a Department of Justice investigation discovered that Chicago Police fired ninety-nine shots while the Panthers only shot twice.” http://bit.ly/2wzWuCD via U.S. National Archives
- ‘Nothing but a Northern Lynching’: The Assassination of Fred Hampton: http://bit.ly/31Q5Ecu via The Huffington Post
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