Chadwick Boseman's widow tearfully accepts his NAACP Image Award with emotional plea to be 'proactive' about health following his colon cancer battle

 

'Thank you NAACP Image Awards for always giving him his flowers. He was an uncommon artist and an even more uncommon person. But the manner in which we lost him is not uncommon at all. Not in our community.' 

She concluded her speech by urging viewers to get screened for colon cancer and be 'proactive' about health, so that no one would have to suffer the same loss as she. 

 

'Black people in this country are 20 percent more likely to be diagnosed with colon cancer and 40 percent more likely to die from it. The age for routine screening has recently been lowered to 45 so if you are 45 years of age or older, please get screened. Don't put it off any longer, please get screened,' she pleaded.