🙏🏼 Mayor @mayor_bowser 🙏🏼 The section of 16th (street) in front of the White House is now officially 'Black Lives Matter Plaza,' " in #WashingtonDC The street sign isn't the only change. Earlier Friday June 5th, 2020, artists with MuralsDC, a Department of Public Works project, and some volunteers painted "BLACK LIVES MATTER" in yellow capital letters down a two-block stretch north of the intersection, just across Lafayette Square from the White House.