Breonna Taylor will be featured on the cover of the September 2020 issue of Vanity Fair.
Presenting Breonna Taylor for Vanity Fair’s September issue, “The Great Fire”: vf.com/thegreatfire Five months have...
Posted by Vanity Fair on Monday, August 24, 2020
Taylor, 26, was shot and killed on March 13 by police at her home when Louisville Metro police officers served a no-knock warrant.
Police were at the home Taylor shared with her boyfriend because of a drug investigation of a past boyfriend. Taylor, according to her family’s attorney, was not involved with any illegal drug activity, the “Today” show reported.
Neither she nor her boyfriend has any criminal history and no drugs were found in a search of the apartment, a lawsuit against three of the officers states, “Today” reported.
Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison and Myles Cosgrove are all named in a wrongful-death lawsuit, accused of “blindly firing” more than 20 shots into the apartment. She was hit eight times.
The officers have not been arrested or charged in her death, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported. They were placed on administrative reassignment.
The city has banned no-knock warrants, The New York Times reported.
Taylor’s portrait on the magazine’s cover was done by the same artist who painted Michelle Obama’s portrait that was hung at the National Portrait Gallery in 2018, Amy Sherald, Ad Age reported.
Sherald said her portrait of Taylor was a way she could show her support of the activism that has started since the killing of the emergency medical technician.
The issue of Vanity Fair is being guest-edited by Ta-Nehisi Coats and examines art, activism and power, the magazine’s parent company, Condé Nast said, according to “Today.”
Coats also wrote a cover article called “A Beautiful Life” to show how Taylor’s death has spurred people to march for change, looking at what happened through experiences of Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, “Today” reported.
Read the article here.
Taylor is also being featured on Oprah Winfrey’s magazine, “O,” as well as, billboards that were put up around Louisville, USA Today reported.
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