Guest-edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates, this special issue features the life of Breonna Taylor, as told by her mother; an oral history of the historic days after George Floyd's death; a portfolio of creatives and visionaries who capture the spirit—and urgency—of the moment; and much more.
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Shortly after midnight March 13, strangers shot and killed Breonna Taylor in her own home. The strangers claimed to be investigating a drug case. The strangers found no drugs in Breonna Taylor’s home. The strangers left their incident report almost totally blank. Tamika Palmer is Breonna Taylor’s …
A photo portfolio celebrating the founders of Black Lives Matter, the Squad, John Boyega, Noname, Billy Porter, and more on the forefront of change.
A movement’s early days as told by those who rose up, those who bore witness, those who grieved, and those who hoped.
Last year Chicago poet Eve L. Ewing published 1919, a volume that channels her city’s Red Summer into blues. It is a magical work. The voices of house-keepers and stockyard hands are summoned. The thoughts of trains carrying black people north are conjured up. The doom of a black boy is told to the …
Vanity Fair takes you through an oral and visual recount of the first 14 days after the murder of George Floyd. From Minnesota politicians and friends of the victims to activists at the frontlines of the Black Lives Matter protests, rallies, and marches, we hear from pivotal voices who paint a …
For more than 20 years, Amy Sherald has been putting the narratives of Black families and Black people to canvas. In 2016, she became the first woman and first African American to win the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, which led to her painting Michelle Obama for the National Portrait …
AVA DuVERNAY: I was reading an interview in which you talked about something that’s been on my mind quite a bit lately. It’s about this time we are in that I’ll just call a racial reckoning. Do you feel that we could have encountered this moment in as robust a manner as we’ve felt it this summer …
Officers in so-called unions, more about brotherhood and bullying than labor, make police reform hard.
The ESPN podcast host investigates Trump’s demand for college football and athlete safety during COVID-19.
The best-selling author of Heavy writes about the South’s heritage and its present state.
Guyanese-British actor Letitia Wright, an Emmy nominee for Black Mirror and a standout in Marvel movies, on her own country’s complicated racial history.
Law enforcement has always been based on violence and corruption. This is how to change it.
In late May, when the protests were gaining momentum and the death toll from COVID-19 had surpassed 100,000 Americans, we asked Ta-Nehisi Coates to join us as guest editor for our September issue. This edition, one of the most important of the year, is usually planned months in advance. We did not …
Activism puts a new face on storefronts through creative work.
The fashion-industry favorite worn by Tracee Ellis Ross and Rihanna tells his story.
Black life—our joys and our oppression—has been embedded into American history since the first ship of enslaved Africans arrived in 1619. Now we’re seeing a seismic shift in how individuals, corporations, and institutions are reckoning with our nation’s racism. On social media, companies use …
Civil Rights leader Patricia Stephens Due adored scary stories, which baffled her family since she had experienced so many real terrors. While crusading against Jim Crow laws and segregation in the 1960s, she’d been threatened, dragged away, and arrested, and her eyesight had been permanently …
