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February 19, 2021 As widespread interest in the racial justice movement began to fade, artists used their work to remind the nation. SHOW TRANSCRIPT "We step out of the shade, unafraid, the new dawn blooms,' said poet Amanda Gorman.  Art has served as a clarion call for justice. So as widespread interest about movements like Black Lives Matter and George Floyd began to fade, Corinne Basabe's team decided to remind the country using art.  "A billboard is something you can't ignore; it holds your gaze," said Basabe, chair of the George Floyd Justice Billboard Campaign.  "The trouble with mov...

Updated on January 30, 2021 at 9:18 am NBC Universal, Inc. Drivers entering the District via South Capitol Street will now see a large billboard on the left near Audi Field.   It features an oil painting that depicts the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police.  Painter Don Perlis’s work, entitled “Floyd,"  is an unflinching look at the moment burned indelibly into the conscious of so many last summer. One police officer kneels on George Floyd’s neck, two others pin him down further. Floyd’s eyes, frozen in anguish, gaze out toward the viewer. To one side, a quote ...

In painter Don Perlis’ re-creation of the brutal killing of George Floyd, an officer kneels on Floyd’s neck and two other officers further pin him down, as another officer in the background looks away from the scene. Floyd’s eyes, frozen in anguish, gaze out toward the viewer. The oil painting, alongside a quote from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” — is amplified on a 16-by-48-foot billboard at La Cienega Boulevard and Holloway Drive near the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. The billboard, which went up Monday, is from a g...