Sep 18, 2020
5 min read
The King is Dead: A Black Meditation on Grieving Chadwick Boseman
Chadwick Boseman’s death has me promising to children a future where Blackness will never leave the Earth.
The body of Chadwick Boseman — the avatar of a future where Black people could politically self-determine — was laid to earthly rest in South Carolina this week, a state in which nearly 60% of its population was enslaved on the eve of the Civil War. Our children mourned.
