Oprah Winfrey is erecting 26 billboards across Louisville in tribute to 26-year-old Breonna Taylor who was shot dead when police officers stormed her home back in March.
Oprah has been advocating justice for Breonna’s death after the young woman got shot in her Louisville home when plainclothes officers raided her home in the middle of the night.
Following Taylor’s death, which many believe to be unjust, the 26-year-old’s face was featured on the cover of ‘O, The Oprah Magazine’.point 472 |
The special issue represents the first time in twenty years that Oprah didn’t pose for the cover of her magazine herself.point 103 | 1
Now, Oprah has also decided to call for justice with the help of 26 billboards she had planned to erect across the Kentucky city.
“Demand that the police involved in killing Breonna Taylor be arrested and charged,” the billboards read. One the left side, there is also Oprah’s quote that says: “If you turn a blind eye to racism, you become an accomplice to it.”
As per Oprah’s editor’s letter, it is vital to use “whatever megaphone we have to cry for justice” to bring the officers responsible for Breonna’s premature death to justice.
According to WLKY, the first of the 26 billboards have been erected on Thursday whereas the last remaining ones are set to pop up by Monday.
Besides urging people to act, the billboards also direct them to pay a visit to UntilFreedom.com, a website that serves as “an intersectional social justice organization rooted in the leadership of diverse people of color to address systemic and racial injustice.”
According to Until Freedom, their entire team is moving to Louisville to seek justice for Breonna Taylor’s death.
“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,” Oprah previously wrote.
“Breonna Taylor had plans. Breonna Taylor had dreams. They all died with her the night five bullets shattered her body and her future.”
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