The latest tweet by Chadwick Boseman, the one in which the actor's family from the 'Black Panther' account announced his disappearance ends in Twitter history: it is the message with the most like ever for the social network, as announced by the same society. There are currently 6.5 million hearts, 3 million re-tweets and 156,000 comments. The record only confirms the enormous wave of emotion and affection caused by the premature death, a cancer at 43, of the interpreter who has become an icon of the African American people, of black pride, inspiration, as he recalled yesterday in a message former President Barack Obama ("Being young, gifted and black; using that power to give them heroes to look up to; and doing all this while sick ... what an extraordinary use of his days").
The last tweet written when he was already serious, on 11 August, Chadwick Boseman had dedicated it instead to Kamala Harris: as a boy he had attended Howard University, the same university of black students in Washington, as the candidate Dem for the vice president . In Los Angeles, but not only there, vigils and celebrations are held in his memory.