For First Time, Oprah Gives Cover to Someone Else

Breonna Taylor will be on the cover of 'O'
By Newser Editors,  Newser Staff
Posted Jul 30, 2020 12:55 PM CDT
For First Time, Oprah Gives Cover to Someone Else
Oprah Winfrey in 2018.   (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP, File)

For 20 years, the cover of Oprah Winfrey's magazine has featured, well, Oprah Winfrey. But the August issue of O changes that: Instead of Oprah, the cover will feature Breonna Taylor, the woman who was fatally shot by police who stormed her home in Kentucky in March, reports Page Six. In a essay in O, Oprah herself explains the decision. "She was just like me," she writes. "She was just like you." And later: "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." (It's not the only change at the magazine.)

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