The local arts community wants to secure a future for powerful works that sprung up amid reckoning over systemic racism
In Oakland, the boarded-up shop windows have been covered with the faces of George Floyd, Tony McDade and Breonna Taylor. If you walk along Telegraph Avenue or Broadway in the city’s downtown, you are surrounded by vividly colored Black Power fists, protest slogans such as “no justice, no peace” or “power to the people” and the names of Oscar Grant and other victims of police violence immortalized in brightly colored spray paint.
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