The mural of Martin Luther King Jr. on Fat’s Chicken and Waffles on East Cherry Street in the Central District was vandalized this week. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
The mural of Martin Luther King Jr. on Fat’s Chicken and Waffles on East Cherry Street in the Central District. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times)
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The mural of Martin Luther King Jr. outside Fat's Chicken & Waffles was vandalized between Sunday evening and Monday morning. The act came as a shock, said owner and longtime Central District resident Erika White.

Mariners President of Baseball Operations Jerry Dipoto shakes hands with recently signed left-handed pitcher Robbie Ray after he puts on a Mariners jersey at T-Mobile Park during a press conference Wednesday, December 1, 2021. Dipoto announces that Ray has just signed a 5-year Major League contract with the Mariners. 218949 218949
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Eileen Carroll, left, works on her laptop as her daughter, Lily, 11, attends school remotely from their home in Warwick, R.I, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. When Carroll’s other daughter tested positive for the coronavirus, state health officials told her to notify anyone her daughter might have been around. Contact tracers, she was told, were simply too overwhelmed to do it. It’s the same story across the U.S., as a catastrophic surge in infections has made it difficult or impossible to keep up with the calls considered critical to controlling outbreaks. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Rubinstein Bagels is one of J. Kenji López-Alt’s favorite local bagel places, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. López-Alt gets ready to nosh on his personal favorite sandwich here, an untoasted Everything bagel with in-house-made fried onion and chive cream cheese, and salmon lox. 219211
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), left, and Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) speak after a vote at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Wednesday evening, Jan. 19, 2022. In a day of sharp exchanges, one of the most dramatic was between two of the Senate’s three Black members, who clashed over charges by Democrats that the Republicans’ opposition to voting rights legislation was a throwback to the Jim Crow days of denying Black Americans the vote. (Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times) XNYT5 XNYT5
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Families wait in line to get rapid antigen COVID tests for students that attend schools in the Southeast and Central regions on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022. Seattle Public Schools and their testing partner, Premier Medical Group, were providing the tests on Sunday at South Shore PreK-8 in Rainier Beach. School will be closed Monday, Jan. 3 as widespread rapid COVID testing will happen again at 12 middle school locations from 1 to 4 p.m.

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An unidentified COVID-19 patient is attached to life-support systems in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, N.H., Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. Hospitals like this medical center, the largest in New Hampshire, are overflowing with severely ill, unvaccinated COVID-19 patients from northern New England. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) NYAG309

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Rubinstein Bagels is one of J. Kenji López-Alt’s favorite local bagel places, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022, in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. López-Alt gets ready to nosh on his personal favorite sandwich here, an untoasted Everything bagel with in-house-made fried onion and chive cream cheese, and salmon lox. 219211

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Daniel J. Evans, Seattle, State Representative; Republican nominee for governor Evans Prefers ‘Gov. Dan’ Washington’s governor-elect Thursday solved one of his weightier problems: It will be Gov. Dan Evans, not Gov. Daniel J. Evans said he preferred use of the less formal name in the news media. Credit: Robert Heilman,. 1964

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Mariners President of Baseball Operations Jerry Dipoto shakes hands with recently signed left-handed pitcher Robbie Ray after he puts on a Mariners jersey at T-Mobile Park during a press conference Wednesday, December 1, 2021. Dipoto announces that Ray has just signed a 5-year Major League contract with the Mariners. 218949 218949

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Lulo Reinhardt, the grand-nephew of the legendary Gypsy Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, is the most revered member of International Guitar Night, having appeared within four previous lineups in addition to hosting this year’s edition.

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Washington’s Nate Roberts puts on the emphatic jam as the Huskies become the aggressors to strt the game against Cal. The bucket gave Washington a quick 4-0 lead on the Golden Bears. The California Golden Bears played the University of Washington in NCAA Men’s basketball Wednesday, January 12, 2022 at Alaska Airlines Arena, in Seattle, WA. 219287
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Russell Wilson takes a victory lap around State Farm Stadium after the Seahawks defeated the Arizona Cardinals 38-30 i the season finale The Seattle Seahawks played the Arizona Cardinals in the regular season finale for both teams Sunday, January 9, 2022 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ. 219255
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First time on skis, Sujal Bhandari gets instructions in bending and learning control from John Thomsen at the Mini Mountain Indoor Ski Center in Bellevue. They’re on an angled moving carpet controlled by Thomsen. Sujal is seven. Ref to more photos online Indoor ski lessons on a moving carpet at Mini Mountain in Bellevue. LO linesonly Saturday January 8, 2020 219275
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