Alabama public radio features ‘the street of many colors’ project

Image courtesy of Alabama Public Radio.

APR Gulf coast correspondent Guy Busby wrote a feature for Alabama Public Radio about a street art project in Mobile created as a response to the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. The event prompted protests around the country as well as throughout Alabama. In Mobile, children and other residents used a different medium to spread the message. They used chalk. Their canvas was a 300-year old street where slaves once walked. This section of Conti Street in downtown Mobile was closed while a mural a block long proclaiming “Black Lives Matter."

As one of the organizers of the event, it just seemed like something that needed to be done. It was wonderful to see the community come out to work on this and to make a statement. The project was sponsored by the Alabama Contemporary Arts Center. The mural on Conti Street now joins similar Black Lives Matter messages on streets including Washington, D.C., Atlanta, Charlotte, and Los Angeles.

Read the feature in its entirety here: https://www.apr.org/news/2020-07-02/the-street-of-many-colors-in-mobile