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Bosemans story, as weve only recently learned, is astonishing.
Its a revelation that makes his death at 43 especially devastating.
To commemorate his death, Boseman wrote and staged a play calledCrossroadsand the experience ignited a career.
I was a sophomore when Fleder filmed the story at my high school Lane Tech in Chicago.
I also remember Boseman.
When the famed athlete tells Little to be better, Boseman listens.
The way he emotes humility makes the scene.
Robinsons bravery stemmed not just from playing baseball, but from enduring a torrent of vicious hate.
The electric Brown ran on a different wattage than the stately Jackie Robinson.
That his work never earned awards buzz will continue to baffle us all.
Itd become a piece of history.
Boseman always bore the temporal heaviness well.
The sound of Boseman shouting Wakanda Forever soon became a revolutionary cry and a sign of affirmation.
Few actors exuded the perceived regality of Blackness more than Boseman.
Their confrontation rings as a metaphorical struggle of ideas about diaspora and a continent that mourns its peoples abductions.
We can be better.
Its not until Norms spirit embraces Paul, and forgives him, that he feels at ease.
Its a message to generations of Black people who must live with and without martyrs and legends.
