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The Miami Museum of Contemporary Art of the African Diaspora <\/strong>(MoCAAD) is honoring the late Judge Lawson E. Thomas \u2013 a man who fought fearlessly for the rights of Black people in Miami \u2013 with a mural etched on the building that once housed his Overtown law office at 1021 NW Second Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 49\u2032 x 14\u2032 work entitled \u201cOVERtown: Our Family Tree,\u201d is one of four murals that are a part of the museum\u2019s \u201c<\/strong>Veo Veo, I See I see, Mwen w\u00e8 Mwen w\u00e8\u201d interactive public art project exploring Overtown through visual art, storytelling and technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mural visitors scan a QR code to interact with the piece.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Courtesy of Miami MoCAAD)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curator Donnamarie Baptiste selected the artists for the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe focus was to find artists who speak to the Black diaspora and whose works speaks to uplifting communities,\u201d said Corbin Graves, MoCAAD interactive media director.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthony \u201cMojo\u201d Reed II, the St. Louis-born, Miami-based artist who created the mural, explained that it is meant to be a visual representation of Thomas\u2019 legacy and everything the latter represented as the first Black judge in Miami-Dade County \u2013 and someone who fought for civil rights across South Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thomas, an attorney and judge who presided over Miami\u2019s Negro Municipal Court, was also an activist who organized sit-ins calling for desegregation. Local historians credit him with leading a protest at Haulover Beach Park that eventually led to the creation of Virginia Key Beach, Miami\u2019s historic Black beach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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