Description: Depiction of the brutal murder of Fred Hampton, leader of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party, by the Chicago police and its subsequent investigation, but also documents his activities in organizing the Chapter, his public speeches, and the programs he founded for children during the last eighteen months of his life.

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Film Panel Discussion Here on Youtube

Khayree Williams, founding director of the college’s Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Campus Center. As TRHT director, Williams is responsible for relationship-building and facilitating ongoing conversations with internal and external stakeholders about changing the racial narrative both at ACC and in Central Texas.

The goal of the TRHT is to work with internal and external partners to create a community where race, ethnicity, and other human differences are no longer predictors of success and well-being in any sector of the community. This includes the elimination of barriers (policies, practices, attitudes, and cultural messages) that reinforce differential outcomes by race.

Williams has served underrepresented students at colleges and universities for more than a decade. His experience spans residence life, student organization/Greek life support, and diversity and inclusion work.

Williams earned a bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management and a master’s degree in College Student Affairs and Leadership from Grand Valley State University. He is completing his doctorate of Community College Leadership from Ferris State University.

Mark D. Cunningham is an Associate Professor in Radio-Television-Film at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas. He received his PhD in Radio-Television-Film from the University of Texas at Austin. He has contributed essays to national publications, several anthologies, and peer-reviewed journals focusing on such topics in film and television/media studies as John Singleton’s film Poetic Justice, Spike Lee’s semi-autobiographical film Crooklyn, actor/rapper/activist Ice T’s role on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, alternative spaces of blackness in Barry Jenkins’ debut film Medicine for Melancholy, and the importance of black popular culture. He has also presented papers at nationally recognized cinema and media studies conferences, facilitated talk back sessions at community events, and participated in both media and education related panel discussions. Dr. Cunningham is currently writing a book on race, gender, and narrative in the trilogy of films about South Central Los Angeles written and directed by the late John Singleton to be published by Columbia University Press.