A Seattle Department of Transportation crew works on filling potholes along Beacon Avenue South in Seattle on Thursday. (Daniel Kim / The Seattle Times)
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Monday, January 18, 2021 The 39th annual Martin Luther King Jr. march works it’s way down E. Yesler Way near 14th Ave. S. coming from Garfield High School to downtown Seattle. 216142
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Friday, January 14, 2022. Student organizers Mia Dabney, left and Nya Spivey are student emcees speaking at the student sickout and rally demanding stricter safety protocols. The rally was held at the John Stanford Center. 219337
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From left center, John Lewis (holding bottle), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy, march for civil rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 19, 1965. Others unidentified. (AP Photo)
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Survivor services advocate Asha Potter looks at clothes to give to participants of the Holiday Shop event at the LifeWire office in Bellevue on Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. LifeWire is an organization that offers support services from domestic violence survivors. During the holidays LifeWire has their Holiday Shop event through donation allow survivors to choose from an array of toys, warm clothing and household items. Due to the pandemic, the Holiday Shop event has gone virtual. 219017
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Blandy Inzunza, a 22-year-old Seattle University student, poses with her two children, Kaelani, 7, (l) and Mia, 3 (turns 4 on Dec. 10) in the Student Center on the S. U. campus Friday, December 3, 2021. Blandy has gotten help from Treehouse since she was a teenager in foster care. She is the only one of eight siblings to have graduated from high school, and says she would not have done so with Treehouse’s support. The organization now helps her with groceries, gas, clothes and moral support as she takes pre-med classes at Seattle University. 218958
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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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