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North Nashville’s ‘Legacy Mural’ Celebrates Historic Figures And The Community’s Future

Paige PflegerWPLN News
Woke3 works on the Legacy Mural on Jefferson Street.
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Community members in North Nashville gathered Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. to celebrate a new mural on Jefferson Street.

The 4,000-square-foot piece is called the Legacy Mural. It was designed by artist and North Nashville native Woke3.

“It’s representing our elders, our past leaders, activists,” Woke3 said. “And it’s also representing our youth, our future, and what we want to see happen for our community.”

The mural features the likeness of prominent Black Nashvillians, like politician Thelma Harper, activist Kwame Lillard, criminal court clerk Howard Gentry and many more.

The figures are depicted in shades of blue, and the middle of the work shows a hand symbolically passing the baton to the next generation.

Paige Pfleger, Criminal Justice Reporter

Paige Pfleger covers criminal justice for WPLN News. She has investigated guns and juvenile justice as a fellow with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network, and her investigation into domestic violence and firearms dispossession won a regional Edward R. Murrow award and was a finalist for an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award and a Livingston Award. She previously covered criminal justice and addiction in Ohio and was named the state's reporter of the year by the Associated Press. Her work has appeared nationally on NPR, The Washington Post, Marketplace, and PRI's The World, and she has worked in the newsrooms of The Tennessean, Michigan Radio, WHYY, Vox and NPR headquarters in DC.

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