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Things to do this weekend in Pa , N J , and Del

Oct. 11 - 15: Philly Bike Ride, Little Feat in N.J., and Freaky Friday at the Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington are among the weekend’s highlights.

Philadelphia s top and most defaced murals

Philly named among top 5 best cities for street art — Here s a look at the city s latest peices

There are thousands of colorful murals scattered across the city, which were commissioned by Mural Arts Philadelphia, an organization founded originally as an anti-graffiti campaign in 1984 to empower professional artists by showcasing their talents to the city. Since its founding, there have been more than 3,600 public murals created in Philadelphia, most of which are still visible today. While there is seemingly an infinite pool of art in the city to find, here are some of the latest murals to be added to the city s collection: Photo by Steve Weinik/Mural Arts “We Did That” by Symone Salib and Letisha Bindu Golafaie can be found at 13th and Arch Street.

Philly Freedom Fighters honored in a Girard College mural

WHYY By An artist s rendering of the Freedom Fighters mural at Girard College. (Courtesy of Mural Arts Philadelphia) A new mural will be painted at Girard College in North Philadelphia, honoring the students who fought to desegregate it in 1965. This historic protest was the longest sustained civil rights action in Philadelphia history, lasting seven months and 17 days, led by lawyer and activist Cecil B. Moore. However the mural will not be honoring the leader of the protest, rather the teenagers who carried it out. “When Cecil B. Moore put the call out that the walls were going to come tumbling down, many of us had never been involved with the civil rights movement,” remembered Karen Asper Jordan, who was just 16 at the time. “He used to call us his ‘young militants.’”

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