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Chadwick Boseman: Tributes pour in for Black Panther actor

BBC Chadwick Boseman: Tributes pour in for Black Panther actor 5 hours ago Chadwick Boseman: Five things to know Big names from the world of entertainment, sport and politics are paying tribute to American actor Chadwick Boseman, who has died aged 43. The Black Panther star was diagnosed with colon cancer in 2016 but had never spoken about it publicly. His family said he had filmed many of his recent movies while undergoing "countless surgeries". Among those celebrating his life was former US President Barack Obama, who said the actor was "blessed". "Chadwick came to the White House to work with kids when he was playing Jackie Robinson," Mr Obama tweeted, referring to the 2013 film 42. "You could tell right away that he was blessed. To be young, gifted, and Black; to use that power to give them heroes to look up to; to do it all while in pain - what a use of his years." Racing driver Lewis Hamilton dedicated his pole position at the Belgian Grand Prix to the actor. "He's inspired a whole generation of young black men and women and provided them with a true superhero to look up to. Rest in power my friend," he wrote on Twitter. I want to dedicate this pole to Chadwick. What he accomplished and the legacy he left is so incredible to me. He’s inspired a whole generation of young black men and women and provided them with a true superhero to look up to. Rest in power my friend.​#WakandaForever​#blackpanther pic.twitter.com/M7EgGess9p — Lewis Hamilton (@LewisHamilton) August 29, 2020 Report Boseman was born in South Carolina and began his acting career in television roles. He rose to prominence playing real-life figures, such as baseball great Jackie Robinson and soul singer James Brown in 2014's Get on Up. But it is his performance as superhero Black Panther for which he is best remembered. In the 2018 blockbuster of the same name, Boseman stars as the ruler of Wakanda, a fictional African nation with the most advanced technology on Earth. Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman dies of cancer 'What Black Panther means to black people like me' Boseman on being 'young, gifted and black' It was a box office hit and earned Boseman critical acclaim, becoming the first superhero film to get a nomination for best picture at the Oscars. Boseman also played the role in the Marvel films Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Fellow Marvel stars were among those paying tribute to him on Saturday. Mark Ruffalo, who plays the Hulk, said the "tragedies amassing this year have only been made more profound" by his death. Tom Holland, who is currently playing Spiderman, called Boseman a role model for millions around the world, while Captain America star Chris Evans and Thor actor Chris Hemsworth said they were heartbroken by his death. Black Panther was widely seen as a cultural milestone for having a largely black cast and a black director. Black Panther: Why this film is a moment Boseman said last year that the film had changed what it means to be "young, gifted and black". The eldest son of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr praised Boseman for his range of roles, saying he "brought history to life" in his depictions of real black men and was "a superhero to many" as Black Panther. Award-winning musician John Legend called Boseman "a bright light" who "always seemed to carry our ancestors with him". LISTEN: Black Panther reviewed by Mark Kermode Black Panther star Lupita Nyong'o on 'reimagining Africa' Ava DuVernay, who has directed a string of powerful films and documentaries including Selma, about the fight for civil rights in the 1960s, also paid tribute. May you have a beautiful return, King. We will miss you so. pic.twitter.com/jdip3RHoXb — Ava DuVernay (@ava) August 29, 2020 Report Others lauded the strength he showed in acting through his cancer treatment. "Showing us all that greatness between surgeries and chemotherapy. This is what dignity looks like," tweeted TV star and author Oprah Winfrey. Actress Halle Berry described him as an "incredible man with immeasurable talent, who leaned into life regardless of his personal battles". Marvel Studios, which created Black Panther, said the actor's legacy would "live on forever". The final tweet posted to Boseman's Twitter account announcing that he had died is now the most 'liked' tweet of all time.

Caged Congolese teen: Why a zoo took 114 years to apologise

BBC Caged Congolese teen: Why a zoo took 114 years to apologise 3 days ago LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Ota Benga was kidnapped from what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1904 and taken to the US to be exhibited. Journalist Pamela Newkirk, who has written extensively about the subject, looks at the attempts over the decades to cover up what happened to him. More than a century after it drew international headlines for exhibiting a young African man in the monkey house, the Bronx Zoo in New York has finally expressed regret. The Wildlife Conservation Society's apology for its 1906 exhibition of Ota Benga, a native of Congo, comes in the wake of global protests prompted by the videotaped police killing of George Floyd that again shone a bright light on racism in the United States. During a national moment of reckoning, Cristian Samper, the Wildlife Conservation Society's president and CEO, said it was important "to reflect on WCS's own history, and the persistence of racism in our institution". He vowed that the society, which runs the Bronx Zoo, would commit itself to full transparency about the episode which inspired breathless headlines across Europe and the United States from 9 September 1906 - a day after Ota Benga was first exhibited - until he was released from the zoo on 28 September 1906. But the belated apology follows years of stonewalling. 'He was a zoo employee' Instead of capitalising on the episode as a teachable moment, the Wildlife Conservation Society engaged in a century-long cover-up during which it actively perpetuated or failed to correct misleading stories about what had actually occurred. As early as 1906 a letter in the zoo archives reveals that officials, in the wake of growing criticism, discussed concocting a story that Ota Benga had actually been a zoo employee. Remarkably, for decades, the ruse worked. Who was Ota Benga? Captured in March 1904 by US trader Samuel Verner from what was then Belgian Congo. His age is not known, he may have been 12 or 13 Taken by ship to New Orleans to be shown later that year at World's Fair in St Louis with eight other young males The fair continued into the winter months where the group was kept without adequate clothing or shelter In September 1906 he was exhibited for 20 days in New York's Bronx Zoo, attracting huge crowds Outrage from Christian ministers ended his incarceration and he was moved to New York's Howard Coloured Orphan Asylum run by African American Reverend James H Gordon In January 1910 he went to live at the Lynchburg Theological Seminary and College for black students in Virginia There he taught neighbourhood boys how to hunt and fish and told stories of his adventures back home He later reportedly became depressed with his longing for home and in March 1916 shot himself with a gun he had hidden. He was thought to be aged around 25. Source: Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga In 1916, following Ota Benga's death, a New York Times article dismissed as urban legend tales of his exhibition. "It was this employment that gave rise to the unfounded report that he was being held in the park as one of the exhibits in the monkey cage," the article said. MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY Ota Benga (R) pictured at the World's Fair in 1904 where he and others were exhibited as "pygmies" The account, of course, contradicted the numerous articles that a decade earlier had appeared in newspapers across the country and in Europe. The New York Times alone had published a dozen articles on the affair, the first under the 9 September 1906 headline: "Bushman Shares A Cage With Bronx Park Apes". Then, in 1974, William Bridges, the zoo's curator emeritus claimed that what actually occurred could not be known. In his book The Gathering of Animals, he rhetorically asked: "Was Ota Benga 'exhibited' - like some strange, rare animal?" a question that he, as the man who presided over the zoo archives, would know best how to answer. "That he was locked behind bars in a bare cage to be stared at during certain hours seems unlikely," he continued, patently ignoring mountains of evidence in the zoological society archives that reveal just that. An article about the exhibition, written by the zoo director, had in fact appeared in the zoological society's own publication. Nonetheless, Bridges wrote: "At this distance in time that is about all that can be said for sure, except that it was all done with the best of intentions, for Ota Benga was interesting to the New York public." 'Friendship between captor and captive' Compounding these deceptive narratives was a book published in 1992 and co-authored by the grandson of Samuel Verner, the man who went to Congo heavily armed to capture Ota Benga and others to exhibit at the 1904 St Louis World's Fair. The book was absurdly characterised as the story of friendship between Verner and Ota Benga. You may also be interested in: Why monuments in the US are being taken down Belgium 'wakes up' to its bloody colonial past Why a Somali-born fighter is being honoured in Rome 'My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves' In at least one newspaper account since the book's publication, the younger Verner also claimed that Ota Benga - who had vigorously resisted his captivity - had enjoyed performing for New Yorkers. So for more than a century, the very institution and men who had so ruthlessly exploited Ota Benga, and their descendants, contaminated the historical record with untrue narratives that circulated around the world. Even now, Mr Samper has apologised for exhibiting Ota Benga for "several days", and not for the three weeks he was held captive in the monkey house. GETTY IMAGES The Wildlife Conservation Society, which runs Bronx Zoo, said it condemned certain dishonourable chapters in its history The zoo has now posted online digitised documents it holds of the episode, among them letters that detail the daily activities of Ota Benga and the men who caged him. Many of those letters are already cited in my book, Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga, published in 2015. In the five years since its publication, zoo officials had inexplicably refused to express regret or even respond to media inquiries. And while I had the opportunity to visit the primate house where Ota Benga was exhibited and housed, the building has since been shuttered to the public. 'Best room in the monkey house' Now, Mr Samper says: "We deeply regret that many people and generations have been hurt by these actions or by our failure previously to publicly condemn and denounce them." He also denounced founding members Madison Grant and Henry Fairfield Osborn, both ardent eugenicists who played a direct role in Ota Benga's exhibition. Grant went on to write The Passing of The Great Race, a book steeped in racist pseudo-science that was praised by Osborn and hailed by Adolf Hitler. MISSOURI HISTORICAL SOCIETY A return to Congo would have been prohibitively expensive for Ota Benga Osborn went on to lead for 25 years the American Museum of Natural History where in 1921 he hosted the second International Eugenics Congress. Curiously, Mr Samper did not mention William Hornaday, the zoo's founding director who was also the nation's foremost zoologist and founding director of the National Zoo in Washington, DC. Hornaday had littered the cage housing Ota Benga with bones to suggest cannibalism and had brazenly boasted that Ota Benga had "the best room in the monkey house". Some feel the conservation society now needs to follow its incomplete apology with rigorous truth-telling befitting a leading educational institution. The episode offers the zoological society the opportunity to educate the public about the history of the conservation movement and its ties to eugenics. The Bronx Zoo's founding principals were among the most influential disseminators of specious racial inferiority theories that resonate still. One suggestion has been that the society might also consider naming its education centre for Ota Benga, whose tragic life and legacy is inextricably bound to the Bronx Zoo'

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