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“Good cops”

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Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte publicity photos for “Carmen Jones” (1954)  

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Dorothy Dandridge was not only one of the most beautiful women in the world, she was my leading lady. Dorothy and I were constantly in search of ways in which to do things that people never saw before. Like two very attractive people kissing who are people of color. Here we were trying to live up to the best of the cinema art, but because of the issue of race, we were not given the time in which to do it that other films would’ve been given under the circumstances. Otto Preminger shot that picture – huge, color, CinemaScope, big screen – he did that in 10 days. We could barely get the lines right before it was a take. We were lucky that it came off as well as it did. The film was a huge success, I think, not just because we may have done a performance that was worthy of viewing, but I think it was a curiosity to see this film that was just us being us and love and caring. Black people had just never quite been seen in that rhythm before.    —Harry Belafonte on Carmen Jones (1954), Black Hollywood: They’ve Gotta Have Us

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What do you mean “no”?

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I just found this petition today, through a really upsetting string of tweets where a girl was talking about how when she was raped as a CHILD pornhub kept her video up for months even when she asked them to take it down, until she pretended to be a lawyer. In the replies to the tweet were a bunch of terrible, disgusting grown fucking men asking for the LINK to the video. It made me sick to my stomach and it made me fear for other girls that this could happen to/could have happened to.

But I also found this petition in the replies and it’s so close to a million signatures. I also learned that it HAS happened to other girls. Like a lot. The link in the petition is a website that links to TONS of news articles and tweets about scenarios like that. One case where a girl was KIDNAPPED and FIFTY EIGHT videos of her were uploaded. It’s how they found her. Senators have requested investigations into pornhub because of how frequently things like this come up. I just don’t think that anyone’s sexual pleasure is more important than justice for the people affected. I usually don’t make my own posts about important topics on this site but this is really really important to me. Please sign the petition, if it’s important to you, too.

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dear music, thanks

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Ava Gardner & Burt Lancaster photographed for The Killers (1946)

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the bensler stans just keep winning

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