>>William McDonald, The New York Times Published: 31 Dec 2020 08:28 PM BdST Updated: 31 Dec 2020 08:28 PM BdST Chadwick Boseman in Beverly Hills, Calif, Jan 30, 2018. Death has rarely so shaped a year as it did in 2020. Boseman died on Aug. 28, 2020. (Brinson+Banks/The New York Times Death has rarely so shaped a year as it did in 2020. It swept the world riding the back of the coronavirus. It galvanised a Black Lives Matter movement across the United States and abroad, sending people of all colors into the streets to demand social justice. It altered the ideological makeup of the US Supreme Court so decisively that the consequences of that shift will assuredly be felt for decades.