August 25, 2020
Vanity Fair Honors Breonna Taylor With New Cover By Black Artist Amy Sherald
The death of Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky, has become the latest polarizing account of police brutality toward Black Americans within this country with millions across the country using social media to make a call for justice and for the arrest of the police officers responsible. Now, Vanity Fair has announced they will be dedicating its September issue to the slain woman.
The new polarizing cover features Taylor painted by artist Amy Sherald, the same painter who found fame when she was selected to paint the portrait of Michelle Obama for the National Portrait Gallery. In an article written by journalist and New York Times best-selling author, Ta-Nehisi Coates, titled “The Beautiful Life” about the social movement around this woman.
“People are getting real antsy, and he doesn’t want them to set the city on fire. They are tearing up the city, and he wants me to come and tell the people to stop,” wrote Coates in his piece. “But I don’t do it. Because I know the people don’t want to hear from me. They want to hear from him. They aren’t looking for me. They want to talk to him. That’s his fight, not mine.”