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Last Updated: Jun 12 2018 · 7:40 p.m.

The audience cheers after the National Anthem was sung. The Martin Luther King Jr. Day Marade, Jan. 15, 2018. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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LOOK: Denver’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Marade persisted despite freezing temperatures and snow

Over the years, the holiday and march has been an opportunity to comment on current events through the lens of Dr. King's fight for civil rights.

Cross Community Coalition founder Candi CdeBaca poses for a portrait before a CDOT meeting on the I-70 expansion project at the Swansea Rec Center, Feb 16, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Spurred by gentrification, a community activist seeks to displace Albus Brooks from his council seat

Candi CdeBaca expects to part of a coalition of candidates with a different approach to growth and development in the 2019 municipal elections.

Maxine Ichikawa and a trove of oxygen tanks that will last her about two weeks. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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With AC units and windows for 268 homes, CDOT asks neighbors to “pardon our dust”

CDOT and the city of Denver are setting aside $3.75 million for home upgrades as part of the mitigation for the I-70 expansion.

What is the current year?

Flags on the National Western Center flap in the breeze.

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Globeville, Elyria-Swansea residents want a stronger voice in the National Western Center

Community activists think the neighborhoods that will bear the brunt of the impact of the project should have at least as much representation as CSU and the stock show.

Raymunda Carreón and Ray G. stand inside the community garden at Focus Points. Members of the Globeville, Elyria-Swansea Coalition for Health and Housing Justice call for the creation of a community land trust, July 18, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Want to stop displacement? Globeville, Elyria-Swansea residents have a proposal

Activists hold up a puppet of Governor John Hickenlooper after interrupting his speech at the March for Science, April 22, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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The People’s Climate March is steering clear of Denver’s biggest local environmental justice issue this weekend

This march wasn't originally conceived as a response to the election of Donald Trump.

The Martin Luther King Jr. statue in City Park, Jan. 16, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Denver activists joining effort marking MLK assassination

Members of Black Lives Matters and the Fight for $15 campaign are holding their first joint action on Tuesday in two dozen cities, including Atlanta, Chicago, Las Vegas and Denver.

A statue of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr at City Park on MLK Day hours before the annual Marade. (Kevin J. Beaty)

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Black History Month

In 1964, Denver paid Martin Luther King Jr. $200 for his “authority on human relations”

King told Denver, "The shape of our world today does not afford our nation the luxury of an anemic democracy."

U.S. Senator Cory Gardner. The Martin Luther King Jr. Marade, Jan. 16, 2017. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

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Cory Gardner voted to stop Elizabeth Warren from quoting Coretta Scott King

Cory Gardner joined 48 other Republicans to make Warren stop talking because she read a letter from Coretta Scott King that was critical of Sen. Jeff Sessions.

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