Barrio Logan sounds alarm over threat to landmark murals, gentrification

Barrio Logan sounds alarm over threat to landmark murals, gentrification

This article originally appeared in Palabra, a multimedia platform for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. On a typically cool spring morning in San Diego, muralist Daniel Angeles took a phone call that chilled his soul: His first piece of public art in the city’s Latino-centric Barrio Logan, a large mural called “Birth of the Hummingbird,” was being erased. He clicked on a live video and was horrified that his masterwork was being…