--- title: Google Maps Now Show Black Lives Matter Street Mural in D.C. description: Google Maps has been updated to show the Black Lives Matter street mural in Washington, D.C. canonical: https://time.com/5854236/google-maps-black-lives-matter/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-06-16T15:16:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:29.250Z og:title: Google Maps Now Shows Black Lives Matter Street Mural in D.C. og:description: Apple Maps and Bing Maps also show the Black Lives Matter street mural og:url: https://time.com/5854236/google-maps-black-lives-matter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb1cc3b8b754a8ba/698a0f5d929fad431abf63e1/BlackLivesMatterGoogleMaps.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Black Lives Matter Art og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Maps Now Shows Black Lives Matter Street Mural in D.C. twitter:description: Apple Maps and Bing Maps also show the Black Lives Matter street mural twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb1cc3b8b754a8ba/698a0f5d929fad431abf63e1/BlackLivesMatterGoogleMaps.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Google Maps Now Shows D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Street Murals > Sponsored content. 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C Jane Tyska—Digital First Media/East Bay Times/Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 16, 2020 3:16 PM UTC As protests against [racism](https://time.com/5851855/systemic-racism-america/), [police brutality](https://time.com/5853218/atlanta-police-kill-dui-suspect/), and racial inequality swept across the nation and [around the world](https://time.com/5850040/uk-anti-racism-protests/) after the murder of George Floyd, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser renamed a section of the street directly in front of the White House “[Black Lives Matter Plaza](https://time.com/5847967/george-floyd-protests-trump/).” To mark the name change, the street was painted with the phrase in giant, yellow letters that run down the busy street. Now, those powerful block letters and the message they carry are visible on Google Maps. While it only took a few hours after Bowser announced the name change for the popular GPS service to relabel the area as BLM Plaza on its maps, it took awhile for their satellite and street view imagery to catch up. Now, Google Maps and, for those Microsoft enthusiasts, [Bing Maps](https://www.digitaltrends.com/news/google-maps-black-lives-matter-plaza/) have added images from the “Black Lives Matter Plaza” and its massive lettering to their satellite and street views. The addition, made over the weekend, according to _9to5Google_, now shows the enormous lettering stretching down D.C.’s 16th Street NW as it leads to the White House. > [](https://twitter.com/sashajol/status/1272548146174812165) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5854236/google-maps-black-lives-matter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5854236/google-maps-black-lives-matter/"},"headline":"Google Maps Now Shows D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Street Murals","datePublished":"2020-06-16T15:16:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:29.250Z","description":"Apple Maps and Bing Maps also show the Black Lives Matter street mural","url":"https://time.com/5854236/google-maps-black-lives-matter/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Brief","clickmonsters"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb1cc3b8b754a8ba/698a0f5d929fad431abf63e1/BlackLivesMatterGoogleMaps.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdb1cc3b8b754a8ba/698a0f5d929fad431abf63e1/BlackLivesMatterGoogleMaps.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Black Lives Matter Art","caption":"Black Lives Matter Art","creditText":"Jane Tyska—Digital First Media/East Bay Times/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5854236/google-maps-black-lives-matter/","name":"Google Maps Now Shows D.C.’s Black Lives Matter Street Murals"}}]}] ```