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Boseman, cinematic citizen of the mind
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In lead roles, the late actor Chadwick Boseman (above) mostly played the outlier: the one with conviction, the one with enough crust and wherewithal to understand that everybody from the high steppers to the low downs is made of antiquity, sunlight and iron.
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Adrian Matejka
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American actor Chadwick Boseman, who died at 43 of colon cancer last month, embodied a dictum of late novelist James Baldwin: "History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history."
Boseman carried the American history insistently, imbuing titans of the real and imagined worlds with the best parts of himself.
