Black Lives Matter Mural Dc. Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday unveiled the locations where "Black Lives Matter" will painted along city streets across the five boroughs. The local chapter of the BLM movement has dismissed the move as "performative and a distraction." Work on the protest mural began in front of Lafayette Park, just north.
Black Lives Matter means Defund the police," they replied to a tweet by Rachel Chason, a Washington Post reporter. The Washington DC mayor has changed the name of a plaza outside the White House to "Black Lives Matter Plaza" in a rebuke to President Trump. Officials at Edinburgh city council has previously declined to remove the.
Bedford-Stuyvesant's massive Black Lives Matter street mural will become a pedestrian-only plaza for the duration of the summer, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
Image caption The two-block long mural reading "Black Lives Matter" was painted overnight outside the White House.
A similar Black Lives Matter mural was painted in Bedford-Stuyvesant over the weekend, with the roadway becoming a pedestrian-only plaza for the summer. Black Lives Matter DC is a member based abolitionist organization centering Black people most at risk for state violence in DC, creating the conditions for Black Liberation through the abolition of systems and institutions of white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism. A mural in a school assembly hall that features a golliwog may be painted over in the light of the Black Lives Matter protests.