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Howard University renames College of Fine Arts after alum, actor Chadwick Boseman

On Wednesday, Howard renamed its performing and visual arts school after the “Black Panther” star, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his role in last year’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Boseman, who graduated from Howard in 2000 with a bachelor of arts degree in directing, died in August at the age of 43 from colon cancer. ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/howard-university-chadwick-boseman-fine-arts/2021/05/26/c3782970-bd75-11eb-9c90-731aff7d9a0d_story.html

The honor comes the day following the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's murder at the hands of multiple Minneapolis police officers.

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