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June 26-July 2, 2020
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BLACK LIVES MATTER STREET
MURAL COMING TO QUEENS
BY ANGÉLICA ACEVEDO
The city will be painting a
Black Lives Matter street mural
in Jamaica, Queens, Mayor
Bill de Blasio announced on
Friday, June 19.
The Queens street mural,
one of five coming to all
the boroughs, will be located
at 153rd Street between Jamaica
Avenue and Archer Avenue.
The street mural follows the
trend set in Washington, D.C.,
and, most recently, in Brooklyn’s
Fulton Street where a
huge, yellow painting of the
phrase “Black Lives Matter”
stretched across a street.
When asked when the mural
will be painted, a spokesperson
at the mayor’s office
said they don’t have a set date
yet, but anticipate it’ll be in
next few weeks.
The announcement of the
mural came during de Blasio’s
daily press briefings on Friday,
where he announced that
Juneteenth, the oldest nationally
celebrated commemoration
of the end of slavery in the
United States, will be a city
and school holiday starting
next year.
He also announced the
new Racial Justice and Recon-
AHEAD IN THE RACE
City Councilman Donovan Richards has an early lead in the race for Queens borough president after the June 23 primary election,
but official results are not expected until after absentee ballots are counted. See coverage on Page 3. QNS fi le photo
ciliation Commission (RRC),
which the city established to
promote social learning, collective
introspection and policy
action.
“New York City is the safest
big city in America with crime
at all-time lows, yet communities
of color bear the brunt of
crime and incarceration,” said
de Blasio. “Racism has been a
pervasive and consequential
force throughout the city’s history
and we cannot go back to
the status quo. We must use
the past to inform and inspire
the present, to promote the
dignity and well-being of all
New Yorkers, and their full inclusion
in the life of our city.”
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