Marching With A Purpose
On Jan. 21, thousands of Denverites turned out for the 35th annual marade (march and parade) to honor slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. on what would have been his 90th birthday. The crowd gathered at the MLK, Jr. memorial statue in City Park just west of Park Hill. Before the crowd marched the three miles west up Colfax to the state capitol, numerous local dignitaries delivered speeches, including former state representative Wilma Webb, below, at microphone. “We’ve got a lot to celebrate,” said Webb, the marade’s founder. “But we’ve got a lot to work on.”
Photos by Cara DeGette