Collected Item: “Oakland Artists Create Murals in Solidarity with Blacks Live Matter”
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Oakland Artists Create Murals in Solidarity with Blacks Live Matter
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Oakland residents find community and hope as they create street art across the city in the days following the death of George Floyd. Local artists and community members created murals on boarded up storefronts to express their solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Store fronts were boarded up as a result of shelter-in-place orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic and as a protective measure during the protests that flooding Oakland's streets following George Floyd's murder.
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#HST580, #ASU, San Francisco Bay Area, Social Justice, Black Lives Matter, George Floyd, street art, murals, community, change, beautify, gentrification, Breonna Taylor, masks, protests, enduring, resistance, listen
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jraRtViPeGU&feature=youtu.be
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San Francisco Chronicle
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2020-06-09