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The mural is painted on the side of a nondescript building on the Near East Side, and it includes portraits of Black jazz musician Duke Ellington and Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, with larger portraits of Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln. Welcome to Bronzeville, the message on the mural says. In diversity, there is beauty and there is strength, quoting renowned Black poet Maya Angelou.
But in diversity, some viewers have focused on the outsized visage of Lincoln and wonder why he occupies such a prominent place in a historically Black neighborhood.
The mural has been both lauded and criticized on social media, and some believe that during a turbulent year of racial reckoning after the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody in May, Lincoln s placement comes across as tone-deaf at the least.