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 | | Black artists were excluded from these developments and the conservative ethos led to political assaults on those public agencies such as the National Endowment of the Arts that had begun to fund black, Hispanic, Asian, female and gay artists. |
 | | The invisibility that was a partial inspiration for the early murals changed as blacks began to be more visible in professional sports, on television, in advertisements, and as popular musical entertainers, and by the 1990s rap music was regularly featured and black youth style was widely emulated by young whites. |
 | | It was meant to inspire the South Side black community with the face s of black success, creative genius, and resistance: Muhammad Ali, John Coltrane, Nina Simone, Marcus Garvey, and Malcolm X appear in the original mural. |
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