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Robeson Taj Frazier was uneasy when he started seeing ads for Amazon’s “Them,” about a Black family in the 1950s being terrorized by hostile white neighbors and supernatural forces.
The USC professor, who is the director of the Institute for Diversity and Empowerment (IDEA) at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication, feared that the drama would contain disturbing images of violence and brutality toward Black people, echoing scenes in HBO’s “Watchmen” and “Lovecraft Country” and other recent projects that mashed up the troubled history of racial turmoil in America with genre elements.
His concerns were underscored when a social media uproar erupted soon after the show’s premiere earlier this month. Numerous Black viewers were outraged over its depictions of vicious racist violence, including the murder of a Black infant while his mother is being raped and a scene showing a Black couple being blinded with hot pokers and then burned to death.
The stylish crowd that usually enjoys watching the Oscars at the Academy of Friends gala in San Francisco won t be noshing on hors d oeuvres or sipping bubbly this year. The event has been scrapped due to the COVID pandemic.
As of Thursday, April 15, AOF s website and social media feeds had yet to reflect the cancellation. The online channels had not been updated in months.
Meanwhile, questions remain about the future of the fundraiser. The president of the organization s board of directors told the Bay Area Reporter he hopes the fundraiser can be held in 2022. But its returning will be dependent on the status of the health crisis, he noted.
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