How Street Artists Honor George Floyd and Magnify a Movement

As racial justice protests continue to erupt in cities across the world, prompted by the killings of George Floyd and many other Black Americans, so too has another phenomenon: the proliferation of murals honoring their lives and critiquing systemic oppression. The murals are united in their themes, but artists everywhere are adding their own unique spin. #CreativesAfterCurfew Minneapolis, Minnesota The artist Leslie Barlow lives just a few blocks away from the Cup Foods where a police officer killed George Floyd. “It just wasn’t something I could escape from,” Barlow says….

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