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Howard University names College of Fine Arts after alumnus Chadwick Boseman
Boseman graduated from Howard University in 2000 with a bachelor of fine arts in directing and went on to start an acting career in Hollywood, California.
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Chadwick Boseman (center) speaks in front of the cast of "Black Panther" after the film won Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles, California, United States, on Jan. 27, 2019. (Reuters/Mike Blake)
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oward University in Washington, DC, has announced the reestablishment of the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts, which is named after the late actor and the university’s distinguished alumnus.
“Howard University president Wayne A. I. Frederick is pleased to announce that the newly reestablished College of Fine Arts will be named in honor of alumnus Chadwick Boseman, whose remarkable career as an actor, director, writer, and producer inspired millions around the world,” the university said in a press statement.
Boseman graduated from Howard University in 2000 with a bachelor of fine arts in directing and went on to start an acting career in Hollywood, California. His role as King T’chala or Black Panther in Marvel’s cinematic universe in 2016-2019 catapulted him into worldwide fame. His acting as a black superhero was critically acclaimed as an iconic representation of the black community.
To the world’s surprise, he died in August 2020 at the age of 43 after battling colon cancer, an illness he never publicly talked about despite being diagnosed in 2016. He was posthumously nominated for Best Actor at 2021’s Academy Award for his role in George C. Wolfe’s Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
“Chad fought to preserve the College of Fine Arts during his matriculation at Howard and remained dedicated to the fight throughout his career, and he would be overjoyed by this development,” the Boseman family said in a statement.
“His time at Howard University helped shape both the man and the artist that he became, committed to truth, integrity and a determination to transform the world through the power of storytelling,” the statement continued. “We are confident that under the dynamic leadership of his former professor and mentor, the indomitable Phylicia Rashad, that the Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts will inspire artistic scholars for many generations.”
Rashad was one of Boseman’s most influential mentors.
“Unrelenting in his pursuit of excellence, Chadwick was possessed with a passion for inquiry and a determination to tell stories — through acting, writing and directing — that revealed the beauty and complexity of our human spirit,” Rashad said in a statement.
