Photos: Local churches display Black Lives Matter murals in parking lots
After the City of Tulsa removed a Black Lives Matter mural on Greenwood Avenue, local churches started painting the murals in their parking lots.
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All Souls Unitarian Church with a Black Lives Matter mural painted in their parking lot Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla.
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Church of the Restoration, Unitarian Universalist, at 1314 North Greenwood Ave. with a Black Lives Matter mural painted in their parking lot Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla.
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Vernon A.M.E Church with a Black Lives Matter mural painted in their parking lot Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla.
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Vernon A.M.E Church with a Black Lives Matter mural painted in their parking lot Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla.
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Church of the Restoration, Unitarian Universalist, at 1314 North Greenwood Ave. with a Black Lives Matter mural painted in their parking lot Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla.
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Black Lives Matter painted in the parking lot of Fellowship Congregational Church Monday, Jan. 4, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla.
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Centenary United Methodist Church painted a Black Lives Matter mural in their parking lot Monday, Jan. 18, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla.
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A retaining wall at First Lutheran Church on 13th Street just west of Utica Ave. Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021 in Tulsa, Okla.
Local churches declare, "Black Lives Matter"
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Hardly a sound has been heard about the 15 "Black Lives Matter Street" signs scattered along two miles of North Peoria Avenue for the past two months.