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Giant yellow “Black Lives Matter” letters now span three blocks of 15th Street in downtown Oakland.
Organizers painted the letters Sunday in response to the killing of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody. It echoed a similar gesture painted Friday along two blocks of 16th Street in Washington, D.C. The central artery of 16th Street leads directly to the White House. Those same letters were painted on a 100-feet long mural on Allston Way in Berkeley after a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.
Senior citizens at St. Paul’s Towers in Oakland unfurled Black Lives Matter banners and banged pots and pans around 5:15 p.m. on Wednesday, also in solidarity with the movement. Many residents have been lifelong equal rights advocates and have sewn and have drawn their own banners to visibly support the movement in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
Elderly residents at St. Paul’s Towers in @oakland bang pots and pans and hang signs in support of the #BlackLivesMatter movement. They’re fired up! #blm @OakTribNews @EastBayTimes pic.twitter.com/UousaeTVyb
— Tyska (@Tyska) June 11, 2020
Meanwhile, throughout downtown, local artists were continuing to paint murals on boarded-up storefronts, creating canvases of hope as the nation reels from the recent turmoil while coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.
