May 27, 2021 Share
WASHINGTON While studying at Howard University, young Chadwick Boseman helped lead a student protest against plans to merge his beloved College of Fine Arts into the College of Arts and Sciences.
He failed in that goal, but 20 years later, the acclaimed actor is being posthumously honored as the namesake of Howard’s newly re-established Chadwick A. Boseman College of Fine Arts.
Boseman, who graduated in 2000 with a bachelor’s degree in directing, died in August at 43 of colon cancer. He rose to prominence playing a succession of Black icons in biographical films: Jackie Robinson, singer James Brown and Thurgood Marshall.
Officials at Howard University are renaming their College of Fine Arts after Chadwick Boseman. The Black Panther star, who lost his battle with cancer last summer, studied directing at the historically Black college from 1997 to 2000 before finding fame as an actor. Announcing the news, Howard University President Wayne A. I. Frederick said Chadwick had backed plans to re-establish a Fine Arts faculty, having fought its absorption into the Arts & Sciences Department while a student. When Chadwick Boseman returned to campus in 2018 to serve as our commencement speaker, he called Howard a magical place, Frederick said in a press release. During his visit, I announced our plans to re-establish the College of Fine Arts and he was filled with ideas and plans to support the effort in a powerful way.
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