Black Lives Matter Murals

While the mural on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower may have garnered the most attention, the City is co-naming and painting streets throughout the five boroughs in honor of the Black Lives Matter movement. The first of these massive public works was painted in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy neighborhood; among the notables who assisted were State Attorney General Letitia James, filmmaker Spike Lee and artists Dawud West, Cey Adams and Hollis King. For the Harlem mural (pictured above) a group of local artists, led by curator LeRone Wilson, along with representatives from nearly two dozen community groups gathered to paint Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard. Other murals can be found or are on the way in Lower Manhattan, Downtown Brooklyn, Staten Island’s Richmond Terrace and the Bronx's Morris Avenue.