Photos: ‘March to End Rape Culture’ demonstrators take to Center City streets

Scores of people took to the streets in Center City on Saturday afternoon for the "March to End Rape Culture," after a historic week that saw the #MeToo era's first high-profile sexual-assault sentencing and a riveting and remarkable hearing in the U.S. Capitol on the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

The annual march brought speakers and demonstrators out to Thomas Paine Plaza around 11 a.m. Homemade signs read "We Believe You" and "Stop Means Stop," among other supportive and affirming messages in what has become an empowerment movement of unrelenting momentum.

"The March to End Rape Culture is a place to help raise awareness in the community about this problem and what we can do about it," the organizers wrote on the event's Facebook page. "It is also a supportive, healing and empowering place for survivors who would like to speak out and find out about local resources. Finally, it is a place for allies to join with survivors and say ENOUGH!"

On Tuesday, a Montgomery County Court judge sentenced actor and comedian Bill Cosby to three to 10 years in prison for the 2004 sexual assault of Andrea Constand, a former operations manager for the Temple University women's basketball team in the early 2000s. And on Friday, it was announced that the FBI will investigate allegations against Kavanaugh, President Trump's pick to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy. That stunning development came a day after a riveting hours-long hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee during which psychologist Christine Blasey Ford unequivocally identified Kavanaugh as the teenager who sexually assaulted her in the 1980s during a gathering while they were in high school, and Kavanaugh emotionally denied the allegation.

About 100 people took part in a #BelieveSurvivors walkout and demonstration at Dilworth Park on Monday.

Check out photos from Saturday's event below: