WASHINGTON – The shrill, metallic banging noises of a jack hammer echoed around the White House on Monday as crews started removing the large, yellow Black Lives Matter mural down the street from the ...
Years after it was first painted, a mural meant to recognize a period of racial reckoning in the country is coming down. The ...
Ordered by Mayor Bowser, a Democrat, the mural and the renaming of the intersection to Black Lives Matter Plaza followed days of protests over police brutality and the murder of George Floyd.
In June 2020, amid a nationwide outcry over the death George Floyd, who was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis, the mural was created overnight. It was in direct response to reports of ...