Keira Knightley explains why she won't act in sex scenes directed by men

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Keira Knightley explains why she won't act in sex scenes directed by men

Keira Knightley recently spoke about the male gaze and why she'd just rather not "stand in front of a group of men naked".

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(1841) Charles Lenox Remond, “Slavery As It Concerns The British”

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In 1913, 57-year-old John Edward Bruce, one of the leading black nationalist figures in the United States, founded the Loyal Order of the Sons of Africa with the goal of freeing the African continent from colonialism and unifying its people. In the speech below, given at an undisclosed

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Eduard Suess , (born Aug. 20, 1831, London, Eng.—died April 26, 1914, Vienna, Austria), Austrian geologist who helped lay the basis for paleogeography and tectonics—i.e., the study of the architecture and evolution of the Earth’s outer rocky

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Andrew Callioux, Captain of the First Louisiana Native Guards Regiment, Union Army, became a hero while leading his troops at the Battle of Port Hudson in 1863. Callioux was born a free man in New Orleans. A cigar maker with an elite clientele, Callioux was a Catholic creole of color that had

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Elba, Idrissa Akuna “Idris” (1972– )

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