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Who Destroyed This Iconic African-American Mural in Philadelphia?

The mural celebrating printmaker Dox Thrash is now a big, ugly square of paint.
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Dox Thrash was a highly regarded African American artist who invented the carborundum mezzotint, a printmaking process that generates exceptionally dark colors.

So it's grimly fitting that whoever obliterated his tribute mural in Philadelphia used a paint of the blackest hue: