Updated August 27, 2009

The Black Messiah is based on actual events of J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO and other operations. The facts from the research were obtained from personal accounts of events, thousands of pages of court and public documents including the comments and statements from the attorneys that prosecuted the civil rights case against the government.

The historical  dramatization and storyline was based on the actual events and records.

Portrayed as a storytellers' montage of vignettes from individuals' experiences of events surrounding the December 4th raid on the Chicago Black Panthers, the narrative unravels the prejudice and political agendas woven into J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO legacy of corruption.

In the winter of 1969, a coordinated raid by the local State Attorney's task forces and Chicago Police on a Black Panther apartment killed Party Chairman Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.

William O' Neal was the Panthers' Chief of Security, but he was also an FBI informant acting with J. Edgar Hoover's notorious COINTELPRO to disrupt, discredit, and destroy black organizations that threaten notions of his American society.

Motivated by Hoover's paranoia of the rise of a "Black Messiah," the Chicago FBI office  initiated one of many unconscionable criminal acts and egregious attacks on civil liberty and human rights in American history.

Now, long since those events, a lovely young Serena Wilson appears, to learn what was behind the events that was never told. Sam Cohen finds the demons that haunted his life still lurk in the shadows of Chicago.

They are as dangerous now, as they were thirty years ago. As Sam helps Serena dig up the past, it is apparent that others are watching. Their lives and the lives of Sam’s closest friends are now threatened. What  secrets in the Skeleton Closet are worth killing for?