Washington, D.C.’s mayor has ordered the demolition of Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House after House Republicans threatened to defund the District. Under U.S. law, D.C is held in a kind of colonial status; residents in the historically Black district did not even get the right to vote for president until 1964. The mural was created amid mass anti-racist protests in 2020, which took place in defiance of a curfew imposed by Trump and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. Follow ➡️ @btnewsroom #bla