You Have To Check Out This Detroit Festival Featuring Wall Murals Created By Black Artists

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Mural by Mohammed Awudu By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated September 20, 2023

Last week, Detroit was once again the host of the second biannual BLKOUT Walls Mural Festival. The all-Black produced festival was co-founded by Sydney G. James, who was born and raised in Detroit, Thomas “Detour” Evans from Denver, and Max Sansing of Chicago.

As James told ESSENCE, “In the mural painting world period, the absence of Blackness

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