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

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."