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LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) -- Purple buckets of flowers lined the Michigan Capitol steps Saturday for the sixth annual "Purple Out Day," a community rally during Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

The event, organized by Voices of Color, honored survivors and remembered those lost to domestic violence. Organizer Tanesha Ash-Shakoor, the group's founder, said the day is meant to broaden understanding of abuse beyond the physical.

"Too often we only relate domestic violence or intimate partner violence with physical abuse and we want people to understand that there are so many dynamics to intimate partner violence, whether it be verbal or economic abuse," Ash-Shakoor said.

Participants planted flowers to "bloom against violence." Among them, survivor Shari Ware describ

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