A Huey P. Newton Story

Roger Guenveur Smith performs his one-man show about the co-founder of the Black Panther Party, and Spike Lee films it with an intimacy that puts the audience in the same smoky room. Smith's Newton is restless, funny, paranoid and brilliant, circling his own legend late in life.

Rather than a biography, it's a portrait of a mind under pressure, built from Newton's words and Smith's long study of him. It's a reminder that the Panthers were led by people, with contradictions, and not just by the images on posters.