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Chadwick Boseman: A Tribute to a King in Memoriam BY: ANANYAA MAHAJAN
Thurgood Marshall, Jackie Robinson and King T’Challa all have one thing in common, they were played on screen by the late Chadwick Boseman. Chadwick Boseman was an actor and playwright who passed away due to stage III colon cancer on August 28, 2020 at the age of 43. While his time on earth was short, his impact and his legacy due to his immense talent on and off screen is one that will be forever ingrained in the world. Childhood and education Boseman was born and raised in Anderson, South Carolina. He wrote his first play named Crossroads in 1994 which he dedicated to a classmate who was recently shot and killed. After graduating high school, he attended Howard University where he made numerous connections in the film industry and paved the way for his career.
Boseman went back to Howard University to give the Commencement Speech to the graduating class of 2018. In his speech, he encourages the students to not take the easy path. He says, "Don't take the easy path. Take the harder one. The more complicated one. The one that has more failures at first than successes. The one that has more ultimately proven to have more meaning, more victory, more glory, [so that] you will not regret it”. He comments that this piece of advice was given to him when was attending university and is something that has stuck with him. 42 After leaving Howard University, Boseman was a part of a few films. But it wasn’t until his 2013 movie, "42" when the world discovered his talent in acting. In "42," he played Jackie Robinson, the first African-American baseball player to be in 14.
