Collected Item: “Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition's Holiday Social Distancing Message”
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Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition's Holiday Social Distancing Message
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Screenshot of a twitter post video
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This twitter post by the Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition features a video warning Boston's Black community not to gather with their families during the holiday season. It was also shown on television as a PSA announcement on a local news station. The video shows a family celebrating Christmas dinner with their grandmother, a group of children receiving gifts from their uncle, and a dining room decorated with lots of party decorations. These happy scenes are interrupted by the grandma vanishing (to represent her death from COVID), a child critically ill with COVID in the hospital, and a coffin sitting alone in a funeral home. These stark images are meant to remained the Black community of their vulnerability COVID deaths and encourage them to avoid meeting their families in an attempt to stop their community from getting COVID-19. This twitter post shows the self-activism of Black community by showing how it mobilized to create COVID warnings and resources to help their people be informed and to warn them of the dangers of becoming a source and recipient of the virus.
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#HST494, #Black voices, #black history month, #Arizona State University
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https://web.archive.org/web/20210226073120/https://twitter.com/BlackBOSCOVID
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Black Boston COVID-19 Coalition
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2021-02-26