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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Sun-Times staff

Dozens of murals created on boarded-up storefronts after George Floyd’s killing now displayed on DuSable Museum grounds

A mural created by South Side artists Squeak Starzula and Mario Mena on boards at a Logan Square pet shop in 2020. The painting conveyed “diversity, creativity, inclusiveness,” Mena says, adding, “We went out there to try to bring some temporary relief for people, just healing.” (Robert Herguth / Sun-Times)
After George Floyd, a Black man, was killed in 2020 by a white Minneapolis police officer, protests erupted in Chicago and other cities, and many business owners scrambled to install wooden boards over storefront windows to protect against vandalism.

Those boards quickly turned into canvases for street artists, who used them to create murals expressing support for a new civil rights movement, condemning racism and encouraging peace and unity.

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