Oprah Winfrey won’t appear on the new cover of O, the Oprah Magazine in August. For the first time in the magazine’s 20-year history the star ceded the honor to Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old Black woman killed by police while sleeping in her own home in Kentucky in March.
“We have to use whatever megaphone we have to cry for justice,” Winfrey said in a note on the magazine’s digital site. “And that is why Breonna Taylor is on the cover of O magazine. I cry for justice in her name.”
The star also shared the story of Taylor’s death and how Louisville police had been “storming into her apartment in the middle of the night.