In memoriam: Chadwick Boseman

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In memoriam: Chadwick Boseman

Sat Aug 29th 2020 by abagond

Boseman in “Black Panther” (via the Jacksonville Free Press).

Chadwick Boseman (1976-2020), the star of “Black Panther” (2018), is dead at 43.

Requiescat in pace.

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on Sat Aug 29th 2020 at 03:24:57 Origin

Had no idea he was so severely sick. Wow.
R.I.P

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on Sat Aug 29th 2020 at 04:04:49 Deb

@Origin…my daughter-in-law just texted me that he’d been fighting colon cancer for four years! I didn’t know either.

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on Sat Aug 29th 2020 at 14:29:44 gro jo

That’s what I call acting!

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on Sat Aug 29th 2020 at 17:04:40 thatdeborahgirl

2020 just keeps kicking us in the teeth.

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on Sat Aug 29th 2020 at 18:01:41 Origin

@Deb
I know! I seems do sudden yet he was battling for years.

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on Sat Aug 29th 2020 at 19:44:13 munubantu

R.I.P., you who help gave Black people the good dreams of the future we all want to be!

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on Sat Aug 29th 2020 at 20:41:11 reynagirl14

Reblogged this on Steph's Blog and commented:

May he rests in power.

Chadwick Boseman, the charismatic actor known for portraying barrier-breaking baseball player Jackie Robinson, music icon James Brown, and Marvel superhero T’Challa, a.k.a. Black Panther, has died of complications from colon cancer. He was 43.

His family confirmed the news Friday evening in a statement posted to Twitter, revealing that Boseman was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016 and quietly battled it for years as it progressed to stage IV.

Born and raised in South Carolina, Boseman studied directing at Howard University and soon built his acting career playing historic Black icons like Thurgood Marshall in Marshall, Brown in Get on Up, and Robinson in 42. (The news of his death comes on the same day that Major League Baseball celebrated Jackie Robinson Day, when all players wear Robinson’s number, 42. MLB paid tribute to Boseman on Twitter, writing, “His transcendent performance in 42 will stand the test of time and serve as a powerful vehicle to tell Jackie’s story to audiences for generations to come.”)

But Boseman was perhaps best known for his history-making role as T’Challa, the first Black superhero to headline a film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The regal king of the fictional nation of Wakanda made his debut in 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, before starring in 2018’s Black Panther.

My prayers go out to his family as they mourned the death of this beloved and most popular Hollywood actor. I’m so sorry to learn and hear about his untimely death. He had so much to give to the world with his extraordinary talent. May he rests in peace and power.

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on Sat Aug 29th 2020 at 23:59:56 gro jo

“R.I.P., you who help gave Black people the good dreams of the future we all want to be!”
Really?! You dream of a tribal society where a leader is somebody chosen by physical combat, something that went out in the stone age? How about all their achievements being the result of some weed instead of cogitation? Sorry for the fellow’s family, but Black Panther was a White fantasy that Blacks ate up like manna from heaven. It made me cringe.

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on Sun Aug 30th 2020 at 00:01:21 Solitaire

Now we find out that he was a warrior in real life, too.

An immense loss. RIP.

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on Sun Aug 30th 2020 at 12:29:57 v8driver

RIP

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on Sun Aug 30th 2020 at 13:43:52 blueberrymoon5969

I as so sad to hear about this; he was a wonderful actor. One would have never known he was battling anything like this in his life. I know personally know his cousin—prayers up!

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on Mon Aug 31st 2020 at 18:39:47 Mary Burrell

Chadwick’s passing really shocked me. I am happy he had a loyal circle of friends among his cast members on the film and Ryan Coogler, the director of Black Panther. I am thankful his medical condition was not ratted out and sold to the tabloids for money as this happens so much in Hollywood. I am astonished how he worked doing physical stunts and still going to cancer therapy. My heart is heavy because he was taken so soon. Colorectal cancer is a beaat, and it affects Black people disproportionately. May his memory be a blessing to all who knew him, may he have a peaceful eternal journey.🕊✊🏿

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on Mon Aug 31st 2020 at 19:42:44 Deb

@Mary Burrell…“Colorectal cancer is a beaat, and it affects Black people disproportionately. May his memory be a blessing to all who knew him…”

Yeah it is Mary. My mother died of metastatic colon cancer 24 years ago. “Metastatic” means the cancer had spread to other organs and, once that happened, all they could do for her was give palliative care.

Her cancer was metastatic because:

1) she didn’t know her mother (who outlived her!) also had colon cancer — because NOBODY talked about ANY of the Big “Cs” back then. By the time she figured it out, it had already spread to her pancreas and of course, she didn’t have the kind of lifetime, elite benefits Ruth Bader Ginsburg has!
2) while she did have medical benefits through her job at the Navy Base, just like today, Black women weren’t being heard, their feelings about their health were hardly if ever respected, nor were they given all the information they needed to make informed decisions about medical procedures they might/might not need.

Since her death, I’ve been getting my colonoscopy every five years on schedule. Nobody HAS to die from colorectal cancer because it is curable if caught early. And once my sons reached 30, they’ve had theirs checked as well.

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on Wed Sep 2nd 2020 at 15:57:02 Mary Burrell

colorectal cancer is a beast

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on Thu Sep 10th 2020 at 15:16:15 Heru Sankofa

It’s still hard to believe…

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