Six-foot letters filled 16 windows of the Africa Center on Friday as the side of the center’s home, a Robert A.M. Stern-designed building in Harlem, became a canvas that spelled out “Black Lives Matter.”“This tribute displayed on our windows loudly proclaims that black lives have always mattered and will always matter,” Uzodinma Iweala, the Africa Center’s chief executive, told a gathering in the center’s courtyard. “It makes clear that the Africa Center supports this movement’s fight against all forms of injustice that black people face.”The ceremony was one of several ways that cultural organizations across New York City marked the Juneteenth holiday, which Mr. Iweala said celebrates “freedom, strength, resilience and the moral power of love.”

Source: New York Times June 19, 2020 19:52 UTC