WMNF
loading.
Colin Kaepernick, Ben & Jerry’s team for West Tampa mural supporting social justice
Share this:
The image of controversial quarterback Colin Kaepernick now appears on a massive mural in West Tampa that supports his fight for social justice. The mural was unveiled Wednesday as Tampa gets ready to host the Super Bowl on Sunday.
LISTEN: Artist Brandan “BMike” Odums stands in front of his “Change the Whirled” mural in West Tampa. The mural, a collaboration between Ben & Jerry’s and Colin Kaepernick’s know Your Rights Camp celebrates the fight for social justice. Daniel Figueroa IV/WMNF
Chelsey Ramirez stands barely five-feet tall. But now the 13-year-old Stewart Middle Magnet seventh grader’s likeness, all 30-feet of it, will look over the West Tampa neighborhood she calls home.
Plans are also in hand for another scheme on the Usk, to protect more than 2,000 properties in Lliswerry. A council report published last autumn said more than half of the city is identified as being at risk of flooding, with Maindee, Crindau, Duffryn and Lliswerry new areas at risk. Lesley Griffiths, minister for environment, energy and rural affairs, said: “I am very pleased to note completion of the Crindau scheme, which will provide a great deal of reassurance and safety to those in the neighbouring area. “Last month’s flooding was a clear example of why we need to do everything we can to mitigate and manage the flood risk posed to communities across Wales. I am also pleased to note that the Crindau scheme has already helped to defend the neighbouring community from storms and record rainfall.
The Boston Transportation Department (BTD) has installed flexible-post plastic bollards along the Massachusetts Avenue bike lanes through the Boston Medical Center campus, one of the city’s most dangerous street segments, to replace more robust concrete curbs that were removed in December.
A view of the former curb-protected bike lane on Massachusetts Avenue through the Boston Medical Center campus, pictured before the cast concrete curbs were removed on Wednesday, December 16, 2020. Contributed photo by Wali Sabuhi.
The entire length of Massachusetts Avenue is part of the city’s “high crash network,” with a higher density of crashes that cause injuries to bicyclists and pedestrians than 97 percent of all other city streets.