December 7, 2018
This year marks the 49th anniversary death of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton Sr. and his widow Akua Njeri, alleges he was murdered by Chicago police who raider their Westside home and shot him to death. (Photo by Wendell Hutson)
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Black Panther Party leader Fred Hampton remembered on his anniversary death
The 49th anniversary death of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton Sr. was recently recognized by more than 100 people including his son Fred Hampton Jr. and widow Akua Njeri at the West Side home where he was shot dead by Chicago police. The annual public memorial at the two-story building now owned by the Chicago Housing Authority included speakers and a re-enactment by Njeri of the day Hampton Sr. was killed. Tenants occupy the building’s second floor while the first floor, where Hampton Sr. died, is boarded up. Hampton Jr. opened the memorial by asking participants for a moment of silence and to clench their fist and raise their arm in the air for five minutes. He ended the moment of silence by screaming out ‘Black Power.’