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