While marches and calls for change continue through the Black Lives Matter movement, celebrities like Jada Pinkett Smith encourage their supporters and followers to demand justice for Breonna Taylor.
07.06.2020 - 01:11 / celebrityinsider.org
The passing of Breonna Taylor was just one of the tragic deaths that led to the Black Lives Matter protests that kicked off around the world earlier this year. They came at a particularly difficult time, considering the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Hot New Hip Hop reported today that Breonna was shot eight times after the police entered her home on a “no-knock” warrant on the incorrect home, and her boyfriend began firing at them, thinking they were intruders. Reportedly, the authorities had
.While marches and calls for change continue through the Black Lives Matter movement, celebrities like Jada Pinkett Smith encourage their supporters and followers to demand justice for Breonna Taylor.
Breonna Taylor at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort on Thursday. Celebrities including Jada Pinkett Smith and Common were among the speakers at the “Justice for Breonna Taylor” event, organized by social justice group Until Freedom.
Tina Knowles, the mother of Beyoncé and Solange Knowles, joined forces with Tamika Palmer and Sybrina Fulton, the mothers of Breonna Taylor and Trayvon Martin, respectively, on Thursday to lend their voices to a good cause. Tina has penned an open letter urging Congress to pass the Heroes Act, which helps to fund absentee voting and making voting more accessible.
Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot by officers who burst into her home March 13, according to Louisville's police chief. Taylor, who was studying to become a nurse, was shot eight times by officers conducting a narcotics investigation.
Jennifer Lawrence has joined Twitter to call for the police officers who killed Breonna Taylor in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky to be brought to justice.Taylor, an emergency medical worker, was fatally shot multiple times in her own home in March after officers entered with a no-knock warrant during a botched drugs sting relating to a suspect already in custody.
After years of not using social media, Jennifer Lawrence joined Twitter to demand justice for Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old EMT and unarmed Black woman, who was killed by three Louisville, Kentucky police officers on March 13. In Lawrence’s tweet, which was posted on Wednesday, June 16, the Hunger Games actress called attention to the murder of Taylor and demanded that the three officers who killed her, Jonathan Mattingly, Myles Cosgrove and Brett Hankins, be charged as criminals.
Beyoncé took her work advocating for Breonna Taylor, an unarmed 26-year-old Black woman who was killed by police while she was sleeping in her apartment when they entered with a no-knock search warrant in March, one step further yesterday. The singer posted an open letter to the Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron on her site.
Beyoncé delivered a special message to graduates during YouTube's Class of 2020 broadcast.She spoke about starting her own business as a Black woman, and paid tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement.YouTube's Class of 2020 streamed on June 7, 2020, and featured appearances from Barack and Michelle Obama, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lopez, Zendaya, Yara Shahidi, Billy Porter, Kerry Washington, Lizzo, Lady Gaga, and Katy Perry.
Doja Cat has announced that she’s donated $100,000 to a fund set up to honour the life of Breonna Taylor, an ER technician who was shot and killed by police officers in March.Taylor was shot eight times by Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) officers on March 13 after they entered her home with a no-knock warrant, which allowed the police to enter without warning or without identifying themselves as law enforcement.Yesterday (June 6), Doja Cat revealed she was donating $100,000 to the
Eva Marcille is one of the celebrities who decided to honor Breonna Taylor for her birthday. She was supposed to be 27 years old.
Solange shared a tribute to Breonna Taylor on Instagram to mark what would have been Taylor's 27th birthday.The singer demanded justice for Breonna Taylor, who was killed by police in mid-March.Solange's Instagram account only features two Instagram posts right now, both of which highlight Black Lives Matter.Solange Knowles is using her platform to demand justice for Breonna Taylor.
George Floyd has shaken the United States and world to its core. However, it was not the first police-involved homicide committed against an unarmed African American in 2020 or within the span of a month.
Porsha Williams shared a message in the memory of Breonna Taylor. It should have been her birthday and Porsha wanted to mark the important day.
Beyonce and Kim Kardashian West were among the stars honouring a black woman shot dead by police.
BFFs Ben Affleck, 47, and Matt Damon, 49, reunited to pay their respects to the late Breonna Taylor, who would have turned 27-years-old on Friday, June 5. The Oscars winners were each joined by their kids — including Ben and Jennifer Garner‘s brood Violet, 14, Seraphina, 11, and Samuel, 8 — as they walked through downtown Los Angeles holding bouquets of roses.
Doja Cat has donated $100,000 to the fund set up to honor Breonna Taylor in celebration of what would have been her 27th birthday.
Beyoncé has joined the growing list of celebrities honoring Louisville native Breonna Taylor on what would have been her 27th birthday Friday (June 5).
Breonna Taylor is being remembered and people are fighting for justice after she was fatally shot in March. On Friday, which would have been Taylor's 27th birthday, her mother, Tamika Palmer, paid tribute to her late daughter.«Breonna was just full of life.
Breonna Taylor’s life is being remembered on Friday, June 5, on what would have been her 27th birthday.