By now, you'll have likely seen the stunning photos of Washington D.C.'s Black Lives Matter mural on a road leading up to the White House.
Amid nationwide protests after the police killing of George Floyd, a group of people were spotted painting the words "Black Lives Matter" in huge yellow letters across two blocks of 16th Street, which has since been renamed Black Lives Matter Plaza.
The moving display was commissioned by Muriel Bowser, Mayor of the District of Columbia, D.C., who explained to James Corden how the public artwork came to fruition.
"We have an incredible team and we do murals all the time, and we wanted to use art as an expression of the country's mood, that we wanted to send a clear message that people shouldn't be scared of the police, or killed by the police," Bowser said. "And this is a moment in our history to get this right."
"Our department of public works, our sanitation workers who are responsible for murals in D.C. we used the artwork that we commissioned with a great group of artists and went out there in the middle of the night and painted it," she added.
Asked at the end of the clip what her vision for the future of humanity is, Bowser replied: "That we speak up and protect each other."
Topics Activism Black Lives Matter
