Remnants of a once vibrant mural honoring the life and legacy of African Americans within Arlington's Hall’s Hill-High View Park neighborhood is now reduced to cinderblocks.

The removal is due to a modernization improvement project at the McDonald’s location along Langston Boulevard.

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The remaining bricks show a small portion of life inside the community, like one section that highlights some of the city’s first Black firefighters. It also includes young boys and girls a part of the Langston-Brown Community Center, the neighborhood Turkey Bowl and abolitionist and Howard Law professor John Mercer Langston.

“Just disappointed, really disappointed, lack of respect of the artist, and the community, community and the artist

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