1 day ago · Jessica Sawyer, 77, of Rockville, Md., holds a sign saying “Black Lives Matter,” Monday, March 10, 2025, as demolition begins on the Black Lives Matter mural in Washington. “I’m very angry that the Trump administration is forcing the D.C. government to take away something that is so important,” says Sawyer.

1 day ago · WASHINGTON – The shrill, metallic banging noises of a jack hammer echoed around the White House on Monday as crews started removing the large, yellow Black Lives Matter mural down the street ...

3 days ago · Over the past five years, Washington, D.C.'s iconic Black Lives Matter street painting has served as a powerful symbol of activism and a gathering place for joy and resistance.

1 day ago · With the White House and Washington Monument in the background, a worker holds a traffic stop sign as demolition begins on the Black Lives Matter mural, Monday, March 10, 2025, in Washington.

1 day ago · Crews in Washington, D.C. have begun painting over the city's "Black Lives Matter" street mural, a notable symbol of the 2020 protests against the killing of George Floyd, after a Republican bill ...

1 day ago · On Monday, March 10, DC crews began removing the Black Lives Matter mural from the 16th Street block in front of the White House. It was a sight to behold for Washingtonians who remember the iconic mural’s inception in June 2020. The famous DC block was the location of large-scale racial justice protests that followed the murder of George Floyd. ...

1 day ago · Washington, D.C.’s iconic “Black Lives Matter” street mural, which has served as a powerful symbol of activism and a gathering place for joy and resistance, will soon be gone. ... Black lives matter, period,” Keyonna Jones, one of artists who helped paint the mural, told member station WAMU in 2020. The mural’s unveiling fell on the ...

2 days ago · Workers with the District Department of Transportation work to remove traffic bollards as they prepare to transform Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, March 10, 2025.

1 day ago · Washington, DC has started the removal of the "Black Lives Matter" plaza on a street near the White House. The mural went up in 2020.

Mar 5, 2025 · WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s capital city will remove the large painting of the words “Black Lives Matter” on a street one block from the White House as Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser struggles to fend off threats of encroachment from both President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress.