Given how 2020 has progressed, with nationwide unrest and the disproportionate devastation of Covid-19's impact of communities of color, now is a good a time as any for Black Americans to look towards an icon. The Universe or God or whatever supreme force you worship, however, has instead taken away one in the making. Chadwick Boseman's death following a four-year battle with colon cancer has marked a local maxima on the Black community's graph of oscillating anguish.
Boseman, a South Carolina native, was on his way to becoming the next Denzel, an actor so respected and ubiquitous that he joined the exclusive league of first-name status among fans who knew him no better than they knew his roles. There's no set science on when society's simultaneous adoration and relatability towards an artist transcends formality, but given the outcry of sentiment upon the news of his death, Boseman was only...
Boseman, a South Carolina native, was on his way to becoming the next Denzel, an actor so respected and ubiquitous that he joined the exclusive league of first-name status among fans who knew him no better than they knew his roles. There's no set science on when society's simultaneous adoration and relatability towards an artist transcends formality, but given the outcry of sentiment upon the news of his death, Boseman was only...
- 9/3/2020
- by Kennedy Hill
- Popsugar.com
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