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|date_of_action=December 2017-May 2018 | |date_of_action=December 2017-May 2018 | ||
|location=125th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, New York City, NY | |location=125th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, New York City, NY | ||
|description_of_content=''The Spirit of Harlem'' is a glass mosaic mural created in 2005 by Louis Delsarte, a Brooklyn-born artist and professor of Fine Arts at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally commissioned by North Fork Bank | |description_of_content=''The Spirit of Harlem'' is a glass mosaic mural created in 2005 by Louis Delsarte, a Brooklyn-born artist and professor of Fine Arts at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. Originally commissioned by former building tenant North Fork Bank for their exterior wall. “The Spirit of Harlem” is an iconic tribute to the Harlem Renaissance and to contemporary artists living and working in Harlem. | ||
|description_of_incident=In December 2017, ''The Spirit of Harlem'' was covered by a layer of black bricks erected by the building’s new tenant, Footaction, a subsidiary of mega-retailer Foot Locker. Soon after, a petition to restore “The Spirit of Harlem” was developed and circulated by Maira Liriano, Associate Chief Librarian at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. | |description_of_incident=In December 2017, ''The Spirit of Harlem'' was covered by a layer of black bricks erected by the building’s new tenant, Footaction, a subsidiary of mega-retailer Foot Locker. Soon after, a petition to restore “The Spirit of Harlem” was developed and circulated by Maira Liriano, Associate Chief Librarian at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. | ||
|description_of_result=In the same month, Footaction publicly responded to the above mentioned petition by committing to remove the wall obscuring the artwork and renovating the mural itself. The full restoration of the mural was completed later in May 2018. | |description_of_result=In the same month, Footaction publicly responded to the above mentioned petition by committing to remove the wall obscuring the artwork and renovating the mural itself. The full restoration of the mural was completed later in May 2018. | ||