The Oprah Magazine Cover features Breonna Taylor

Oprah has been on every cover of her O, The Oprah Magazine, since it first published 20 years ago. This September, an amazing illustration of Breonna Taylor will be featured. There’s even a cool article on how the illustration was made.

Oprah:

Only in the wake of George Floyd’s filmed execution was national attention brought to the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, two and a half months after she was killed. Pleas for justice have fallen on deaf ears. As I write this, in early July, just one of the three officers involved has been dismissed from the police force. This officer blindly fired ten rounds from his gun, some of which went into the adjoining apartment.

We have made it a point to discuss her story in our home. We wonder if the officers will ever be dismissed.

I think about Breonna Taylor often. She was the same age as the two daughter-girls from my school in South Africa who’ve been quarantining with Stedman and me since March. In all their conversations I feel the promise of possibilities.

Their whole lives shine with the light of hopefulness. That was taken away from Breonna in such a horrifying manner.

Imagine if three unidentified men burst into your home while you were sleeping. And your partner fired a gun to protect you. And then mayhem.

What I know for sure: We can’t be silent. We have to use whatever megaphone we have to cry for justice.

And that is why Breonna Taylor is on the cover of O magazine. 

I cry for justice in her name. 

If there was ever a time to set aside tradition, it’s now. Very appropriate.