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Volunteers on Importance of the Black Lives Matter Street Mural

By William C. Singleton III For The Birmingham Times They came not just to paint letters on a downtown Birmingham street but to paint history. City workers and volunteers throughout the Birmingham metropolitan area, both white and black, and some from as far away as Chicago, donned paint rollers and filled in letters outlined on []

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