A Huey P. Newton Story

Instead of recounting Newton's "greatest hits", Guenveur-Smith gives his version of Newton in the flesh, breathing, smoking, and telling jokes to the audience. The odd opening moment, breaks down the distance between the performer and the audience along with the mood wall to establish a rapport with the audience.

Really didn't need the Biggy analogies...

Researchers have found that TV programs that feature black characters can influence both how young black viewers see themselves and how others view them. And Huey's clever, rather uncanny, and undoubtedly distressed. He's somewhere between the most profoundly sharp underachiever you've ever met and that guy talking to himself at the bus stop. Smith gives an extremely impressive, tremendously physical performance entailing the severest, most persistent cigarette smoking I've ever seen.