Malcolm-Jamal Warner was a TV big brother and an off-screen gentleman. He’ll be forever missed | Andrew Lawrence

The Cosby show actor died tragically in Costa Rica, leaving behind a game-changing legacy on TV and a wealth of respect in the real worldDeath of Malcolm-Jamal Warner shocks fans: ‘We saw ourselves in him’The last time I saw Malcolm-Jamal Warner was on a bittersweet night in Atlanta. This was after one of his gigs at Buteco, the east side Brazilian joint that Warner took over on the first Thursday of every month. He would magically transform it into the kind of classic Black TV hotspot that he himself might have walked on to back in the day. (Think of Natalie’s, the New York Undercover hangout.) Warner’s Buteco Nights had become a rallying cry among my guy friends to break away from family routines and kick back and catch up for a few hours in a house full of fellow creatives. All the while, Warner would reinterpret funk and R&B jams on the electric bass with his band, Biological Misfits. When two friends announced they were leaving Atlanta for good, this balmy night in April became a final hurrah. I didn’t yet know just how final.Just when the night seemed as if it couldn’t be stretched any longer, I caught Warner as he and the band were packing up at closing time. I asked about his daughter (whom I fondly remember being carried out of Buteco after a recent gig ran past her bedtime), and suddenly – as ever with Warner, always so thoughtful and intentional in his interactions – we were going deep. We joked about being older dads and the adventures and adversities that come with raising Black children in this American day and age. He was so insanely proud of the job his wife and daughter were doing in homeschool, studying ancient Egypt and other Black history. He was especially excited about an upcoming family trip to Costa Rica, because it meant he could bring the classroom to the beach. After 20 or so minutes of catching up, we bro-hugged and parted ways. I had no reason to expect I’d never see him again. Continue reading...

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