Campaign Demands Removal of Racist Mural in France

Apr 10, 2019

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When Mame-Fatou Niang came across a racist mural depicting two Africans with exaggerated features on the walls that house the French National Assembly, she said she was “shocked.” The series of frescos were commissioned by the French government in 1991 from French painter Hervé Di Rosa to commemorate the first time France abolished slavery in 1794.