New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the new mural will send a message that «Black lives, in fact, do matter,» reports.«That Black people built New York City, that they've never been compensated for all they did, that all the mistakes, the sins, everything in American history that has afflicted Black people have not been accounted for and must be accounted for -- something he does not understand,» he said last month. «So it is right to take the eyes of the world, the attention of the world right there on Fifth Avenue and focus on Black Lives Matter.»Our city isn’t just painting the words on Fifth Avenue.
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