{"id":32828,"date":"2024-03-16T16:44:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T20:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=32828"},"modified":"2024-03-18T19:36:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T23:36:04","slug":"saturday-short-remembering-our-chad-and-the-legacy-of-chadwick-boseman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debmillswriter.com\/?p=32828","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Short – Remembering Our Chad and the Legacy of Chadwick Boseman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Photo Credit: L) Chadwick Boseman – Gage Skidmore, Flickr<\/a>, R) Chad Stephens (pic taken by Deb Mills)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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[This piece is adapted from the Archives<\/a> on the 30th anniversary of my nephew Chad Stephens’ death. He was 23 when he died instantly in a car accident. After so many years, I’m not sure who all have the sweet memories of Chad that his family has. As to legacy…only God knows. I was reminded today in remembering Chad of another’s legacy – the actor\/influencer Chadwick Boseman<\/a>. His legacy is large and public. For both of them, Chad and Chadwick, dying sooner and harder than any of us imagined would have happened…who knows the extent of their legacy – either Chad, a young man with most of his promise still ahead of him, or the profoundly gifted Chadwick Boseman, dying in his 40s. Below you’ll find excerpts from a blog I wrote when Chadwick died, as I also remember Chad today.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shock waves covered our country and the world at the news of actor and Black Panther<\/em><\/a> superhero \u2018s death. He was\/is a bigger-than-life figure in our culture. As we all know now, he had late-stage colon cancer since 2016 (four years prior to his death). That the public didn\u2019t know he was ill isn\u2019t a surprise, given Boseman\u2019s private nature and also the incredible production of 10 of his films from 2016 until now (one of them Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom <\/em><\/a>released after his death). Fighting his battle with cancer at the same time, what grace, focus, and courage he displayed through all the making of those films!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chadwick Boseman, \u2018Black Panther\u2019 Star, Dies at 43<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boseman died on Jackie Robinson Day<\/a> \u2013 August 28, 2020 \u2013 at the age of 43.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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