Chadwick Boseman, the actor who played the title character in the Oscar-winning film Black Panther, died last Friday at the age of forty-three.
Boseman drew accolades for his depictions of Thurgood Marshall, Jackie Robinson, and James Brown. He died on the fifty-seventh anniversary of the March on Washington and the day baseball honored Jackie Robinson.
In his memory, ABC showed Black Panther commercial-free last night. I watched the marvelous film again as well as the tribute show to Boseman that followed. One person said of him, “He played icons and now has become an icon himself, and his legacy is one for the ages.”
Why Chadwick Boseman died and what he believed
The tweet announcing Boseman’s death is now the most liked tweet of all time. In it, his family reported: “Chadwick was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016, and battled with it these last 4 years as it progressed to stage IV.”
He filmed Black Panther in 2018, reprising the role in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame (the latter became the highest-grossing movie of all time). He starred last year in 21 Bridges and then in the Netflix war drama Da 5 Bloods. We now know that he made each of these movies, as his family stated, “during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy.”
Chadwick Boseman died of cancer, but he died in faith.
Rev. Samuel Neely, the pastor who baptized Boseman as a child, said the arts were always part of his life, singing in the church choir and producing plays in high school. According to Rev. Neely, Boseman continued to live out his faith as an adult.
In explaining Jackie Robinson’s remarkable courage, Boseman quoted the “fruit of the Spirit” (Galatians 5:22–23) and said, “I…
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