A memorial service for Black Panthers star, Chadwick Boseman will be held TONIGHT, Thursday 9/3, to honor the Anderson, South Carolina native.
According to the City of Anderson, James Brown daughter, Deanna Brown-Thomas will be speaking at the service.
Boseman played James Brown in 2014's "Get On Up," a chronicle of Brown's life.
The memorial service will be held outside the Anderson Sports and Entertainment Complex beginning at 7pm Thursday, September 3.
A screening of Black Panther will follow the memorial service.
Attendees are asked to bring their own seating and blankets, social distancing and masks are required.
This past Sunday, August 30, Governor McMaster ordered the Statehouse flags lowered to half-staff in honor of Boseman.
Currently, there is a petition posted by change.org to replace a Confederate monument in Anderson with a Chadwick Boseman memorial.
Petition signing is still underway with a goal of 50,000 signatures.
Chadwick Boseman died Friday August 28, 2020 at the age of 43 after a four year battle with colon cancer. He was a T-L Hanna High School Graduate.
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Aug. 29, 2020: LOS ANGELES (AP) — First Chadwick Boseman slipped on the cleats of Jackie Robinson, then the Godfather of Soul’s dancing shoes, portraying both Black American icons with a searing intensity that commanded respect.
When the former playwright suited up as Black Panther, he brought cool intellectual gravitas to the Marvel superhero whose “Wakanda forever!” salute reverberated worldwide.
As his Hollywood career boomed, though, Boseman was privately undergoing “countless surgeries and chemotherapy” to battle colon cancer, according to a family statement announcing his death at age 43 on Friday. He’d been diagnosed at stage 3 in 2016 but never spoke publicly about it.
NEW YORK (AP) — Tributes continue to pour in for actor Chadwick Boseman. Those honoring the “Black Panther” star include former President Barack Obama, who met the actor at the White House, and Boseman's Marvel Studios co-stars Scarlett Johansson and Robert Downey Jr. Boseman died Friday at 43, four years after he was diagnosed with colon cancer.
Flags will be placed at half mast on Sunday in the actor's home state of South Carolina.
Boseman's roles included playing Jackie Robinson in the biopic “42," James Brown in “Get On Up” and the ruler of the fictional kingdom of Wakanda in Marvel's blockbuster “Black Panther" and “Avengers” films.