The President of the Martin Luther King Jr Family Services says he had sough a way to present a message and to pay respects to George Floyd, the man killed in Minneapolis last week.
Ronn Johnson says that a mural commissioned for the side of the Lawton Street building that houses the Family Services Center was completed. Three artists worked for two straight days to complete the project.
Johnson says that it pays homage to the more than 70 black men and women that lost their lives in the last year.
The mural: "Say Their Name" is important. Johnson says it shows that they were simply not a statistic but a human being.
Besides the mural itself people have been writing messages on dove cutouts with messages of hope.
Wane One, a New York Artist created the mural along with two other artists.