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Oakland Artists Create Murals in Solidarity with Blacks Live Matter

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Title (Dublin Core)

Oakland Artists Create Murals in Solidarity with Blacks Live Matter

Description (Dublin Core)

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.

Date (Dublin Core)

June 9, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

San Francisco Chronicle

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Shanna Gagnon

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

video
screenshot

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

Publisher (Dublin Core)

YouTube

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Community & Community Organizations
English Conflict
English Emotion
English Neighborhoods
English Public Art

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

hope
local artist
solidarity
George Floyd
#BlackLivesMatter
San Francisco Bay Area
California

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

San Francisco Bay Area
Social Justice
Black Lives Matter
George Floyd
street art
murals
community
change
beautify
gentrification
Breonna Taylor
masks
enduring
protests
resistance
listen
Black Voices

Collection (Dublin Core)

Social Jusice
San Francisco Bay Area
Black Voices

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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

08/29/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

09/03/2020
4/14/21
08/02/2022
09/24/2024

Date Created (Dublin Core)

06/09/2020

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This item was submitted on August 29, 2020 by Shanna Gagnon using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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