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Looking Back at Chadwick Boseman’s Commencement Speech at Howard University

“Extra’s” Billy Bush closes the show with a look back at Chadwick Boseman’s 2018 commencement speech at Howard University.

During the speech, he talked about living with purpose and how conflicted he was about playing a young man on a soap opera who was being pulled into gang life. He spoke up and lost the part, but went on to play icons like Jackie Robinson, James Brown and Thurgood Marshall, along with his most famous role as T’Challa in “Black Panther.”

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