Time Puts Words in Iconic Red Border for First Time — Names of Black People Killed by Systemic Racism

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In a sign that national unrest after the death of George Floyd is changing things both big and small, Time hit an unusual milestone Thursday: The magazine’s iconic red border had words in it for the first time ever and those words were the names of 35 black people whose deaths were the result of systemic racism.

Many of those whose names appear around the edge of the cover — which will appear on Friday’s edition of the weekly — were killed by police and their deaths, according t0 Time, were not only caused by systemic racism, but “helped fuel the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.” The names on the cover are these: Trayvon Martin, Yvette Smith, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Laquan McDonald, Tanisha Anderson, Akai Gurley, Tamir Rice,

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