Discarded protest art preserves George Floyd legacy


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Kenda Zellner-Smith, founder of Save the Boards, stands in a Minneapolis warehouse housing protest art panels. Photo: AFP

Kenda Zellner-Smith hauled up a corrugated metal door to reveal hundreds of wooden boards covered with graffiti, each telling a story of the protests that followed George Floyd's killing by a US police officer.

The 28-year-old has collected and archived the panels that once protected businesses from rioting in Minneapolis, aiming to preserve the legacy of the 2020 murder that shocked the United States.

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