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Dread Scott and 50/50 contacted NCAC for assistance. NCAC wrote a letter to Outfront CEO along with a letter from 50/50's lawyer. Dread Scott also proposed a second billboard design as a compromise, which removed the most controversial element, the photograph of the flag, and instead consisted of a black background with four columns memorializing the names of innocent African Americans who died at the hands of police. | Dread Scott and 50/50 contacted NCAC for assistance. NCAC wrote a letter to Outfront CEO along with a letter from 50/50's lawyer. Dread Scott also proposed a second billboard design as a compromise, which removed the most controversial element, the photograph of the flag, and instead consisted of a black background with four columns memorializing the names of innocent African Americans who died at the hands of police. | ||
|description_of_result=Outfront Media accepted the compromise and the new billboard design went forward. | |description_of_result=Outfront Media accepted the compromise and the new billboard design went forward. | ||
'A Partial Listing of People Lynched By Police Recently' on view through December 31st for BLACK LIVES MATTER at 50/50 Kansas City. | |||
|image=Kansas Lynched Billboard final.jpg | |image=Kansas Lynched Billboard final.jpg | ||
|source=http://www.5050kc.com/programs | |||
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Images and correspondence between NCAC, the artist and 50/50. | Images and correspondence between NCAC, the artist and 50/50. | ||