2025-05-02
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What happens when the US declares war on your parents?
The Black Panther Cubs know.
By Ed Pilkington.
Read by Chike Akonkwo.
Radical change isn't free.
Fred Hampton Jr. was days away from taking his first breath when his father was assassinated.
Still in his mother's womb,
he would have sensed the shots fired by police into his parents' bedroom at the back of 2337 Monroe Street.
Chicago.
He would have absorbed the muffled screams,
felt the adrenaline rushing through his mother's veins, been jolted by her violent arrest.
Could he also have somehow sensed the moment of his father's death?
His dad was Chairman Fred Hampton,
leader of the Illinois Chapter and Deputy Chairman of the National Black Panther Party,
who was sleeping beside his pregnant fiancée when 14 Chicago police officers burst into the apartment.
They shot him in bed, striking him twice in the head.