Photo Gallery: Downtown Memphis runs pink for cancer fundraiser
Susan G. Komen ‘Race for the Cure’ attracts over 6,000
Gloria Boyce, center, is embraced by Angela Thomas, left, Davielle Hotz, and Andriona Thomas (right) at the finish line after completing the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on Oct. 27, 2018. Downtown Memphis was flooded with pink tutus, pink wigs and pink feathered boas Saturday morning as over 6,000 runners turned out for the annual race to raise money to fund research, education, screening and treatment of breast cancer. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Downtown is flooded with pink tutus, pink wigs, and pink feathered boas Saturday morning as over 6,000 runners take off at the start of the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure to raise money to fund research, education, screening and treatment of breast cancer. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Members of the Nurses, Angels, and Warriors Team pray before the start of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on Oct. 27, 2018. Downtown was flooded with pink tutus, pink wigs, and pink feathered boas Saturday morning as over 6,000 runners turned out for the annual race to raise money to fund research, education, screening and treatment of breast cancer. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Tish Pinion, who has been a breast cancer survivor for a year, lets out a cheer before the start of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on Oct. 27, 2018. Downtown was flooded with pink tutus, pink wigs and pink feathered boas Saturday morning as over 6,000 runners turned out for the annual race to raise money to fund research, education, screening and treatment of breast cancer. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Julie Brown (left), Sonya Bradford and Tonia Thomas compare socks at the finish line after the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on Oct. 27, 2018. Downtown was flooded with pink tutus, pink wigs and pink feathered boas Saturday morning as over 6,000 runners turned out for the annual race to raise money to fund research, education, screening and treatment of breast cancer. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Family and friends gather to cheer on the racers as downtown is flooded with pink tutus, pink wigs and pink feathered boas on Oct. 27, 2018. Over 6,000 runners turned out for the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure to raise money to fund research, education, screening and treatment of breast cancer. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Josephine Vaughn (right) gets warmed up with a little dancing before the start of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on Oct. 27, 2018. Downtown was flooded with pink tutus, pink wigs and pink feathered boas Saturday morning as over 6,000 runners turned out for the annual race to raise money to fund research, education, screening and treatment of breast cancer. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Runners turn onto Beale Street Saturday morning as over 6,000 runners participated the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure to raise money to fund research, education, screening and treatment of breast cancer. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Fellow breast cancer survivors Barbara Gaston (left), Dana Sloan and Kari Daniel embrace before the start of the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure on Oct. 27, 2018. Downtown was flooded with pink tutus, pink wigs and pink feathered boas Saturday morning as over 6,000 runners turned out for the annual race to raise money to fund research, education, screening and treatment of breast cancer. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
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Daily Memphian Photo Editor Jim Weber has worked as a photojournalist for 30 years at numerous publications including the Naples Daily News, the San Luis Obispo Telegram Tribune, the Cincinnati Post and the Commercial Appeal. A graduate in Visual Communications from the Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University and a photography student at the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, Weber has been recognized with the Hearst Journalism Award in Photography and is a three-time NPPA Regional Photographer of the Year. Follow him on Instagram @jwphotojournal.
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