KC murals celebrate Black lives

By Sidney Henkensiefken (shenkens@jccc.edu). Henkensiefken is a staff photographer for the Campus Ledger. This is her third semester at the Ledger and she joined to continue her passion for photography. Henkensiefken loves talking about politics, hanging out with her friends and being with her family.

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On Sept. 5 local artists and community members came together to paint six Black Lives Matter street murals over the Kansas City area. Pictured here is one of the murals painted, on 18th and Vine in KCMO.
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On Sept. 5 local artists and community members came together to paint six Black Lives Matter street murals over the Kansas City area. Pictured here is one of the murals painted, on 18th and Vine in KCMO.
The cites picked for these murals were not random. At 18th and Vine, for example, there is rich historic value of black life as The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and the American Jazz Museum are located there.
While the murals on the streets were painted on Sept. 5 murals that illustrate the community have been standing for quite some time (Mural by: Alexander Austin).
The Black Lives Matter street mural painted on 31st and Troost encompassed the names of prominent black people in history. One of the names displayed on the mural is Carver, eluding to that of George Washington Carver a man born into slavery who became free after the Civil War. Carver was an “agricultural chemist, agronomist, and experimenter” who spoke highly against racism his whole life (Brittanca). https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Washington-Carver
Black Lives Matter is an inherently political issue. In the street mural on 31st and Troost it is urged that people vote in the upcoming election for whomever you believe is going to make our country better.
Another name, King, is displayed the mural at 31st and Troost. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Is known to be one of the most fundamental activist for the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s.
Another past mural by Alexander Austin on 31st and Troost captivating the faces of some of the most well-known civil rights activists in history.
The Black Lives Matter street murals are located at 10th and Baltimore,18th and Vine, 31st and Troost, 63rd and Troost, 63rd and Brookside Boulevard, NW Briarcliff Parkway and N. Mulberry. In just a little over a week of painting the murals it has been discovered the mural at Briarcliff Parkway has been vandalized.
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