Ellise Shafer editorHost Keke Palmer began this year’s MTV VMAs by dedicating the show to Chadwick Boseman, the late star of “Black Panther” who died on Friday at 43 due to colon cancer.“We dedicate tonight’s show to a man whose spirit touched so many,” Palmer said. “He is a true hero, not just on screen, but in everything he did.
His impact lives forever.”The first commercial of the broadcast was also a tribute to Boseman, a minute-long spot sharing his 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards Best Hero speech.
He quickly gave the statue to James Shaw Jr., who thwarted a gunman at a Tennessee Waffle House in April of that year.The world needs more superheroes, and we all deserve to see ourselves in them.
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