Explore the Archives
A Journal of the Plague Year Arizona Collection Australia Boston Bronx Community College New York Brooklyn College New York Canada Las Americas Lockdown Staten Island New Orleans Oral Histories Philippines Sacramento Community Based Organizations Southwest Stories Teaching the Pandemic The City College of New York

Collected Item: “Black Coalition Against COVID 19's Love Letter to Black America”

Give your story a title.

Black Coalition Against COVID 19's Love Letter to Black America

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

Screen shot of a twitter post video

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

This twitter post was featured on the Black Coalition Against COVID 19's twitter page. The video is a "Love Letter" to the United States black community and offers an affirming and reassuring statement of the African American medical and research community's commitment to the health, protection, and quote "survival" of their ethnicity. The video affirms that black medical staff will continue to fight for equality in healthcare while encouraging the black community to continue wearing masks, social distancing, avoiding holiday gatherings, and to participate in COVID-19 vaccine trials. The video is an uplifting example of the Black community's efforts to show their people that they will be heard, valued, protected and will overcome the virus.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

#HST494, #Black voices, #black history month, #Arizona State University

Enter a URL associated with this object, if relevant.

https://web.archive.org/web/20201209001333/https://twitter.com/BCAgainstCOVID

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

Black Coalition Against COVID 19

Give this story a date.

2021-02-26
Click here to view the corresponding item.