We happened upon DC’s tallest portrait quite by accident, at 14th and U Streets NW. Featured is Buck Hill, a native Washingtonian who played the saxophone in jazz clubs along the U Street Corridor in the 1940s, when it was known as “Black Broadway,” and was also a mail carrier with the US Postal Service for 40 years, earning him the nickname “the Wailin’ Mailman.” He died at the age of 90 in 2017 and was honored in this mural by MuralsDC, which is funded by the Department of Public Works and collaborates with the Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly
unsharp.

Ben’s Chili Bowl tribute to Black Americans: 'The Torch', posted earlier