Black Lives Matter street mural painted in Denver near Capitol protest site
Hundreds gathered early Friday morning between the Colorado Capitol and Denver’s City and County Building to help artist Adri Norris and a team of volunteers paint the words “Black Lives Matter” across Broadway.
Spanning the Civic Center city block, the mural also reads “Remember This Time.” Participants kneeled, brushes in hand, as they filled in block letters with shades of black, brown and yellow. Others stood rolling coat after coat of bright white paint on the background.
It was another peaceful scene punctuating a two-week period of historic protests in Denver and across the world following the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police on May 25. But Norris didn’t want her quiet contribution to be misunderstood.
“There’s a very long history of black people existing in white spaces, of whiteness encroaching in on black and brown spaces,” she explained of the design.
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This image shot with a drone shows a Black Lives Matter mural in front of the Colorado Capitol in Denver on Broadway between Colfax Ave. and 14th Ave. on Friday, June 12, 2020. (The Denver Post via Jim Casey, City and County of Denver).