During this time of Strange Fruit, Artist, and Muralist, Sydney G. James has found a way to hang her frustrations by re-creating the mural in honor of unjustly slain Malice Green, killed at the hands of Police Brutality.
In 1992, Detroit native Malice Green, a black man, died after 2 white police Detroit Police officers Walter Budzyn and Larry Nevers assaulted him.
Although the original mural of Malice Green was created in 1992 by a local artist as a memorial and idolized him as a face of brutality, it has since been destroyed.
Paying homage to Kym Worthy’s tactfulness during the trial of Malice Green, James expresses her desire to use the same intentional tact in the design and placement of the mural.
“This mural will give Malice Green and other ancestors who have died at the hands of police brutality, as well as their surviving families and communities their deserved visibility in recorded and cultural history.”
