DC begins removing ‘Black Lives Matter’ plaza from street near White House

Washington D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Mural Demolished but the Ground Still Speaks

In the summer of 2020, I left my home in Bowie, Maryland, and traveled to Washington, D.C. We were far from having a cure for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), with the first human case being reported in December of 2019. But George Floyd had been viciously murdered by a police officer during his arrest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on May 25.  The store clerk suspected Floyd of using a counterfeit twenty-dollar bill to make a purchase, so he cal…

On Monday, the dismantling of the "Black Lives Matter" square began, and Nadine Sileo reported her old banner of 2020.

Georgia congressman’s bill leads to dismantling of DC Black Lives Matter mural

For nearly five years, two blocks leading up to the White House were the home of a mural that had become one of the most recognizable symbols nationally of the Black Lives Matter movement that swept the nation in the summer of 2020. And that was far too long for Georgia U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde, who filed legislation about a week ago threatening to withhold federal funds from Washington if the bold yellow letters weren’t removed from the two block…

Exclusive | White House celebrates the dismantling of multimillion-dollar BLM Plaza: ‘Eyesore of a virtue signal’

The White House was pleased at the first signs of the Black Lives Matter Plaza being torn down across the street this week -- doing a victory lap after the street mural was ordered to be taken down after lining a central street in DC since 2020.

UNDER GOP PRESSURE, BLACK LIVES MATTER MURAL DESTROYED

Crews work Tuesday to remove the large yellow "Black Lives Matter" mural painted on the street a block from the White House. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the change last week in response to pressure from Republicans in Congress. Bowser,…

Republicans Tear Down a Black Lives Matter Mural

Symbols aren’t just symbols.