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August 31, 2020

Chadwick Boseman, Beloved and Ground-Breaking Actor, Dies at 43 After Battle With Cancer
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Tributes continue to pour in for beloved actor Chadwick Boseman, after
he died Friday at the age of 43, after a four-year battle with colon
cancer. Boseman is best known for his iconic role as King T'Challa in
the ground-breaking Black Panther - the first mainstream Black superhero
movie. He was also widely acclaimed for his portrayal of major
historical figures like Thurgood Marshall, James Brown and Jackie
Robinson. This is Boseman speaking alongside the Black Panther cast as
they accepted the top award at the 2019 Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Chadwick Boseman: "We all know what it's like to be told that there is
not a place for you to be featured, yet you are young, gifted and black.
We know what it's like to be told there's not a screen for you to be
featured on, a stage for you to be featured on. We know what it's like
to be the tail and not the head. We know what it's like to be beneath
and not above. And that is what we went to work with every day because
we knew - not that we would be around during award season or that it
would make a billion dollars, but we knew we had something special that
we wanted to give the world. That we could be full human beings in the
roles that we were playing, that we could create a world that
exemplified a world that we wanted to see."



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