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Oprah Winfrey honored Breonna Taylor on the cover of O Magazine’s September issue. The mogul paid tribute to the young woman by insisting that ‘we can’t be silent’ in the wake of her death.

Over four months after her tragic death, Breonna Taylor will be paid tribute to as the first person other than Oprah Winfrey to appear on the cover of O Magazine in its 20-year history. On July 30, Oprah, herself, took to her Instagram account to unveil the first look at the September issue. Along with the stunning portrait of Breonna, created by talented digital artist Alexis Franklin, Oprah shared an inspiring message with her followers.

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Breonna Taylor’s stunning digital portrait graces the cover of the September Issue of O Magazine [Alexis Franklin].
“Breonna Taylor. She was just like me. She was just like you. And like everyone who dies unexpectedly, she had plans,” Oprah began the caption to her post. The media mogul confessed that, in these tumultuous times, she thinks “about Breonna Taylor often.” Oprah also chronicled for her followers the events of March 13, when 26-year-old Breonna was fatally shot in her sleep by Louisville Metro Police Department officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove, all of whom have yet to be charged in her death, and only one has been fired.

“What I know for sure: We can’t be silent,” Oprah urged those reading the caption to her post. “We have to use whatever megaphone we have to cry for justice. And that is why Breonna Taylor is on the cover of [Oprah Magazine]. The September issue honors her life and the life of every other Black woman whose life has been taken too soon.”

Oprah Winfrey’s caption to the unveiling of the September 2020 cover of O Magazine, featuring Breonna Taylor, courtesy of Instagram.

Along with the incredible, beautiful cover, Oprah also honored Breonna in a very personally way, writing about the phenomenal life that was lost. “Breonna Taylor had plans. Breonna Taylor had dreams. They all died with her the night five bullets shattered her body and her future,” she wrote in the forthcoming issue. “She was the same age as the two daughter-girls from my school in South Africa who’ve been quarantining with Stedman [Graham, Oprah’s longtime partner] and me since March. In all their conversations I feel the promise of possibilities.”

Oprah eloquently wrote about how the lives of the young Black women she knows, “shine with the light of hopefulness,” and how that very same light “was taken away from Breonna in such a horrifying manner.” In the weeks that followed Breonna’s death at the hands of law enforcement, American citizens turned their attention to the deaths of other Black citizens like George Floyd, killed on May 25, and Ahmaud Arbery, who was killed on Feb. 23.

Art created for the September 2020 issue of O Magazine, honoring Breonna Taylor [ Janelle Washington].
Millions across the globe came out to protest police brutality since the violent deaths of the aforementioned Black citizens and more. Public mourning and funerals also took place to remember George Floyd’s life, who was killed when officer Derrick Chauvin knelt on George’s neck for nearly nine minutes. All four officers were charged in George Floyd’s death.

With Oprah’s latest issue of her magazine, she’s not only honoring and remembering Breonna, but also the many lives of Black women whose lives were cut far too short by police brutality. Oprah describes having a collection of property ledgers from former plantations, detailing the names of Black women who were bound in slavery. “As a great-great-granddaughter of enslaved people, I know that in a different era my name would have been in someone’s ledger,” she noted.

“Those ledgers come to mind when I see the names of Black women who were killed by police. Breonna Taylor and too many others like her. I see the names, I think of the ledgers, I feel the connection down the generations: the refusal to value Black women’s lives. And I feel a personal connection. Because I am these women. These women are me.”

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