This year activists, artists, and allies took to the streets throughout the country during the summer of reckoning with race. Their messages of protest and pathways to change are captured on Black Lives Matter murals painted on buildings, boarded up sites, streets, and make-shift holding areas across rural towns, cities, and communities in America and around the world.
Those murals capture the collective pains, passions, and protests against police brutality, structural racism, and injustices. The drawings and messages tell visual stories of the hurts, spell out the names of those lost to police brutality, and reflect the mass anguish and distress embraced by both young and old activists and artists. Those murals are visual histories of the times. Now some are beginning to disappear. But there are some trying to save them. Read about those mural savers here.
