OPINION (CBN News) – Millions of fans will be rooting for “Black Panther” at the 2019 Oscars awards ceremony this Sunday, but perhaps no one more than 11-year-old Xavier Cunningham. The breakout film is up for a total of seven awards, including best picture – the first time a superhero film has been nominated in the category. For Xavier, the movie stands alone and is already a golden winner. CBN News first met him last September, just days after he left the hospital surviving a near-fatal accident. He and two friends
had climbed into a treehouse not knowing it was infested with yellowjackets. After getting attacked, Xavier fell from the treehouse ladder face first onto a 17-inch meat skewer wedged in the ground below. “He had this metal-looking rod, what I thought was an arrow, coming out of his cheek,” Gabrielle Miller, the boy’s mother, recalled. Xavier remembered his mom’s shock: “She was like, ‘Oh my gosh! Who did this to you?'” READ MORE
