Crews have begun work to remove the large yellow “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street one block from the White House.D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the change last week in response to pressure from activists Republicans in Congress.

D.C. began dismantling Black Lives Matter Plaza on Monday, less than a week after Mayor Muriel Bowser announced it would be transformed. Why it matters: The mural near the White House went up in summer 2020 to protest police brutality and as a rebuke to President Trump in his first term.

Workers in Washington yesterday began removing a “Black Lives Matter” street mural installed during the height of 2020 racial justice protests,