Black Lives Matter Street Mural, New York, NY

The project is a joint effort between the Billie Holiday Theatre at Restoration Plaza and Councilman Robert Cornegy Jr., who originally reached out to the artist, Dawud West, to commission a mural for the plaza.

Black Lives Matter Street Mural, New York, NY

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|BLACK LIVES MATTER|||||||||||||||||| is painted in yellow traffic paint on pavement. The letters are 28 feet tall, spanning a 375-foot-long stretch of Fulton Street in Restoration Plaza. In addition to the Black Lives Matter message, the names of victims of police brutality are also memorialized in the artwork in stylized writing on rectangular blocks of yellow. Taken outside of its transportation context, the yellow paint represented urgency and action, said Nicholas Love, an artist and volunteer. He explained that “It’s just so bold and in your face. The black pavement under the traffic-yellow, it’s like caution: be aware.” Artist Robert Carnegie said the Washington, D.C., mural spurred him to bring the same spirit to Bedford-Stuyvesant. “That inspired me to do more. It reenergized me," said Carnegie, a co-organizer of the public art installation. "I wanted that same feeling for our community.”

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Artist: Billie Holiday and Robert Cornegy Jr.

Photograph: Filip Wolak

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Located on Fulton Street at Restoration Plaza between Marcy Ave Pl and Brooklyn Ave, in the historically Black Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Stephen Larrick, Black Lives Matter Street Mural Census