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ESSENCE Unveils First-Ever Quilt Artwork Cover Marking 'The Year That Changed The World'

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Rae Lewis-Thornton (December 1994), former gang girl Isis Sapp-Grant (August 1998) and the first Black President, Barack Obama (January 2009).

But in February 2015, we went without a cover subject for the first time in our history, instead spotlighting these three words: Black Lives Matter.

Six years later, we’re here again. Last May, George Floyd was murdered: Three Minneapolis cops did nothing as former police officer Derek Chauvin pinned him at the neck with his knee.

The video of Floyd’s breath leaving his body, while Chauvin looked unmoved, went viral. It ignited thunderous demands for justice for Floyd, as well as for Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and other Black lives lost at the hands of racist violence in 2020.

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