Artists, activists rush to save Black Lives Matter murals
Two Black women formed Save the Boards to Memorialize the Movement, part of a push to preserve the ephemeral expressions of anger and pain born of outrage over racial injustice that triggered weeks of protests
George Floyd’s final moments, his neck pinned under a Minneapolis police officer’s knee.
But as their city grieved,
Leesa Kelly and
Kenda Zellner-Smith found much-needed comfort in the messages of anguish and hope that appeared on boarded-up windows as residents turned miles of plywood into canvases. Now, they’re working to save those murals before they vanish.