Was the Commodification of Breonna Taylor Worth It?
Through her death, she became an icon. I wrestle with its impact.
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5 min readOct 1, 2020
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Her likeness was everywhere, immortalized. A cyan dream on the September cover of Vanity Fair. Angelic, floating midair toward the skyline on 26 billionaire-branded billboards. A mural painted on two basketball courts in a park in Annapolis, Maryland, so substantial it…