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watcher0033 · 1 year

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They fucking know it. 😭❤️‍🩹

#oscars #oscars 2023 #angela bassett #she is THE QUEEN #SHE DESERVED THAT WIN #SHE HAS BEEN ROBBED #michael b jordan #jonathan majors #black panther wakanda forever #black panther #poc #Hollywood #we live in a society

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247liveculture · 7 months

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Pam Grier (1974)

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machetelanding · 1 year

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John Carpenter on the set of They Live (1988)

#they live #science fiction #action #movies #1988 #1980s #john carpenter #hollywood #filmmaking #behind the scenes #black and white

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luckydiorxoxo · 5 months

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#Erica Alexander #Issa Rae #essence #American fiction #Barbie #living single #blackish #candy cane lane #insecure #black actresses #black hollywood

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247liveculture · 23 days

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Solange (2021)

📸: Rafael Rios

#solange #solange knowles #black tumblr #247lc #hollywood #music #hip hop #247 live culture #black women #beautiful women #black is beautiful #black is gold #black woman #women style #street style #fashion trends

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princess-of-thebes-1995 · 6 months

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To those celebrities who claim to support black lives matter, animal rights and feminism but are quiet for Palestine and support Israel. I don't believe any of their crap anymore. I have a feeling they are only trying to be popular by acting saintly to get positive attention. They're just fuckin' clowns. Two faced demons. Being hated on and freaks in movies is cool. They are villains and antagonist compared to their Hollywood roles in real life. Ain't this a bitch?

#Palestine #free palestine #gaza #blm #black lives matter #hypocrisy #celebrities #hollywood #animal rights #feminism

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arshlema · 6 months

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Arsema Thomas @ Spotify Wrapped 2023 in London

#black beauty #black hollywood #black lives matter #bridgerton #bridgerton cast #queen charlotte #arsema thomas #black girl aesthetic #black hair #black tumblr #rukahair #ruka hair #african #afro hair #fypage

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moerusai · 10 months

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When asked about the proposal during the press conference, Crabtree-Ireland said that “This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no consent and no compensation. So if you think that’s a groundbreaking proposal, I suggest you think again.”

Source: The Verge

#sag strike #black mirror #AI #give it to hollywood to make a dystopian sci-fi show warning of #unforeseen devastating consequences of using generative AI #and later go “omg we should TOTALLY do that”#we're living the worst timeline #fuck capitalism

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reasoningdaily · 8 months

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A Black couple have sued the city of Beverly Hills, alleging their arrest was part of a campaign by its police to arrest Black people for trivial reasons and at disproportionate rates.

The couple’s lawyers, Bradley Gage and Benjamin Crump, said the Beverly Hills police last year set up a task force — dubbed Operation Safe Streets and the Rodeo Drive Task Force — that arrested 106 people, 105 of whom were Black and one of whom was Latino. Gage said the sources of the arrest figures were unidentified retired Beverly Hills police officers who were appalled by the task force’s actions and so shared with him the alleged racial breakdown of who had been arrested.

The impetus for the task force, Gage said, was both the protests over the death of George Floyd and what Beverly Hills police believed were transactions at retail stores using suspected proceeds of unemployment benefit fraud. Gage described the Police Department’s approach to rooting out suspected fraud as, “Gee, that’s suspicious — Black people shopping in Beverly Hills.”

Gage and Crump, who has represented the families of Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others killed by police, raised their allegations Wednesday on the steps of Beverly Hills City Hall. “There is something terribly wrong here,” Gage said, citing what he called the city’s legacy of biased policing.

Gage and Crump are seeking class-action status for their lawsuit, which was filed Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The only named plaintiffs are the couple, who were arrested on suspicion of riding scooters on a sidewalk and resisting arrest; it does not appear that Gage or Crump has identified the 104 other people who they contend were arrested.

In a statement, Police Chief Dominick Rivetti said his department created a “Rodeo Drive Team” in response to complaints by businesses and a rise in burglaries, shoplifting, “street gambling, public intoxication, marijuana smoking and more.” The team seized 13 firearms carried by people on Rodeo Drive, said Rivetti, who called this “unprecedented in the history of Beverly Hills.”

Rivetti said the Rodeo Drive unit rooted out fraudulently obtained state unemployment benefits, seizing $250,000 in cash and ill-gotten debit cards. Most of the people arrested by the unit were not California residents, Rivetti said, but they nonetheless possessed debit cards loaded with state funds.

The Times asked the Beverly Hills police for a total number and breakdown by race of the people arrested by the Rodeo Drive unit. Capt. Max Subin, a department spokesman, said officials were gathering the figures Wednesday and would provide them once they had finished.

Gage and Crump on Wednesday highlighted the experience of the Black couple, Khalil White and Jasmine Williams of Philadelphia, who said they were visiting Beverly Hills on vacation in September when they were stopped, arrested and eventually jailed by police.

As five officers handcuffed White, Williams said, she asked an officer for her purse to retrieve their hotel key. Two officers pushed her to a police car, handcuffed her and took her to jail, she said.

“I was scared,” Williams said. “I’ve never been to jail in my life.”

White, who said he was jailed overnight and forced to post a $25,000 bond, was charged in Los Angeles County Superior Court with resisting arrest and falsely identifying himself to police. Williams was charged with falsely identifying herself to police. The charges were dismissed in February, records show.

Crump and Gage alleged that White and Williams’ arrests were part of a campaign to target Black people in the city through its recently formed task force.

The Beverly Hills police “had made up their mind that this Black man was going to jail because this is Operation Safe Streets,” Crump said.

In his statement, Rivetti said police had warned White and Williams earlier the day of their arrest that it was illegal to ride a scooter on the sidewalk, without taking action against the couple. In their second encounter with police, White and Williams provided officers with false information, Rivetti said.

“Our department’s practice is to contact and question individuals when we believe they may be involved in criminal activity or another violation of the law,” he said.

Beverly Hills officials faced criticism last summer for insisting on charging protesters with misdemeanor curfew violations; by comparison, prosecutors for the city and county of Los Angeles declined to charge similarly minor violations of curfews and dispersal orders.

In a summary of the Beverly Hills protests, a police sergeant wrote that for residents who survived the Holocaust and Iranian revolution, the demonstrations over Floyd’s death were “not merely an intrusion of their peace” but “a terrifying reminder of their past.”

The department’s previous chief, Sandra Spagnoli, retired in 2020, beset by allegations that she made racist comments and had sex with subordinates who were later promoted. Spagnoli denied the claims, which she said were raised by disgruntled employees, but the city paid out millions of dollars to settle many of the lawsuits. Gage, who represented several officers who sued Spagnoli, estimated at the time that the city paid about $8 million in settlements, attorney fees and other costs.

#hollywood #racial profiling #hollywood pd #los angeles #ben crump #Black Lives Matter #Beverly Hills accused of creating police task force that disproportionately arrested Black people #beverly hills racial profiling #Black LIves are Over Policed

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diana-andraste · 2 months

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