Tag: Martin Luther King
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Change at the top: Dazzle toots its own horn | Arts news
The club’s new co-owner and president is noted trombonist Chad Schneider
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Denver MLK Marade, other events close down city for holiday
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Single-digit temperatures won’t stop many people from streaming down East Colfax Avenue on Monday — Martin Luther King Jr. Day — for the annual Denver Marade, held in his honor since 1986. The annual Marade — a mashup of march and parade — is one of…
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. marade takes over Colfax Monday, draws thousands
Martel Harris’ knees were sore and Mary Chase’s back hurt. The two walked in the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. march and parade Monday — called a marade by organizers — from City Park to Civic Center Park. But the two Denverites had gone to almost every march, parade and later marade in the city for…
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The chapel in a desert built by Sidney Poitier and a Colorado author | Vince Bzdek
The recent passing of the great Sidney Poitier prompted my family to rewatch his Best Actor Oscar-winning performance — the first ever for a Black man — in “Lilies of the Field.” Poitier plays an itinerant handyman who happens upon a group of destitute nuns in the Arizona desert. They see his arrival as an answer to…