Stars at the Emmys Honor Breonna Taylor and the Black Lives Matter Movement

From Harper's BAZAAR

As Hollywood came together to celebrate the past year in TV for last night's Emmy Awards, some stars used the opportunity to pay tribute to the movement for racial justice marching across the country, and to bring awareness to the Black lives lost to police brutality.

A few drew attention to Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old emergency medical technician from Louisville, who was shot and killed by police during a raid at her home in March. More than six months after her killing, cries for justice continue with people calling for the cops involved in Taylor's shooting to be ousted and arrested. (To date, only one of the three officers has been fired.) Just last week, the city of Louisville paid Taylor's family $12 million in a settlement, but protesters continue to push for actual accountability.

At this year's Emmys, Taylor's advocates included Regina King and Uzo Aduba, and even more guests nodded to the Black Lives Matter movement as a whole.

Regina King

The Watchmen star, who won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie, accepted her trophy from her couch while wearing a T-shirt printed with Taylor's face and the phrase "Say Her Name." The top, by the brand Phenomenal, also read "Arrest the cops who killed Breonna Taylor" on the back.

Uzo Aduba

Aduba, who won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for her portrayal of Shirley Chisholm in Mrs. America, also accepted her award while wearing a Breonna Taylor T-shirt.

Sterling K. Brown

While presenting the Outstanding Drama Series Award, the This Is Us star sported a black T-shirt under his suit jacket with the print of a raised fist, a symbol for resistance and solidarity, which is often used when fighting racial injustice. Below the image read the letters BLM.

Yvonne Orji

Like Brown, Emmy-nominated Orji of Insecure also sported the fist logo. Hers, however, was shaved into the side of her head. "NUFF✊🏾SAID🖤," she said of the look on Instagram.

Anthony Anderson

In one comedic segment, the Black-ish star riffed about hoping for "the Blackest Emmys ever."

"I'm still rooting for everybody Black, because Black stories and Black performances and Black lives matter," he said.

He also got host Jimmy Kimmel to take part in a "Black Lives Matter" chant with him. "Say it so that Mike Pence can hear it," Anderson urged.

Sandra Oh

The Killing Eve star, nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, channeled her Korean heritage while paying tribute to Black lives. She collaborated with the L.A.-based brand KORELIMITED on a custom lavender bomber jacket with a special message.

"It's in a royal purple colour—which is a super Korean colour and brings a certain mindset for me—and it says 'Black Lives Are Precious' in Korean writing, because the literal translation of Black Lives Matter is impossible in Korean," she explained to British Vogue.

"After George Floyd's death and the protests that followed, I felt that as an Asian-American, a Korean-American person, I wanted to express my support for the Black community in a way that felt personal to my community," she said of her decision behind the outfit.

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