The Police Called Breonna Taylor a ‘Soft Target.’ She Wasn’t the First.

Since before this country’s founding, Black women have been treated as vulnerable—and disposable

Ameer Hasan Loggins, Ph.D
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6 min readAug 3, 2020

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Protest signs in Brooklyn, New York on July 25, 2020. Photo: Ira L. Black — Corbis/Getty Images

12:38 a.m. was the last peaceful minute of Breonna Taylor’s life.

On March 13, 2020, at 12:38 a.m., Breonna Taylor and her partner, Kenneth Walker, were…

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Ameer Hasan Loggins, Ph.D
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