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  • September 20, 2010

    Anti-AIDS Campaign With Ray Charles Rejected (1992)

    In April 1992 a series of proposed anti-AIDS ads starring Whoopi Goldberg, George Burns and Ray Charles was rejected by the Centers for Disease Control as “the wrong approach”. In the ads, the stars urged condom use with such pleas as: “I wouldn’t be seen without one” (Charles), and “Ain’t no making Whoopi without one” […]

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