Judas and the Black Messiah tells the story of how these two men were connected to one another in a tale as old as scripture as indicated by its biblical title. 1969 is also the year a twenty-one-year-old Fred Hampton, the chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party, would be assassinated.
Included in this span of time is the year 1969 and in 1969 William O'Neal would turn twenty years-old. The second part of the series chronicled the time period between the national emergence of Malcolm X in 1964 up through to the 1983 election of Harold Washington as the first African American mayor of Chicago. Later that night, on PBS, the second part of the fourteen-part documentary series, Eyes on the Prize, would debut. On the day of January 15th, 1990 William O'Neal was a forty-year-old man who'd been drinking with his uncle into the early-morning hours of Martin Luther King Day before running into westbound traffic on an expressway and jumping in front of a car that killed him. The long game no longer feels as long and therefore the implications of our actions become just as important as the ramifications. As we get older, we become more conscious of our time and the legacy we might leave.
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