Published by editor on Wed, 09/02/2020 - 9:04am
The king is dead.
Last Friday ended on a sad note with the announcement that actor Chadwick Boseman had died at the age of 43 after a four-year battle with cancer.
Boseman gained fame for playing historical black figures like Jackie Robinson and James Brown, but since 2016 he was best known for portraying T'Challa, the Black Panther, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In that time, Boseman was regarded as a hero both on and off-screen, positively inspiring a demographic sorely under represented in theaters and doing so with grace and humor.
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