From painting over Washington D.C.'s Black Lives Matter mural to temporarily scrubbing the stories of Navajo Code Talkers in World War II from federal websites, scholars and activists say stories of nonwhite history, even recent history, are being erased at rapid speed. DIRKS: Five years ago, after the police killing of George Floyd, Jones was one of the artists who came out to paint in the middle of the night. It's not just about getting rid of a painting, he says, but an attempt to paint over evidence of a movement that brought people across the world out onto the streets.
Author: Sandhya Dirks
Published at: 2025-03-29 21:54:12
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