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R.I.P Nichelle Nichols Who Played Lt. Uhura On Star Trek.
Nichols was one of the first Black women featured in a major television series, and her role as Lt. Nyota Uhura on the original TV series was groundbreaking: an African American woman whose name came from Uhuru, the Swahili word for “freedom.”
“Here I was projecting in the 23rd century what should have been quite simple,” Nichols told NPR in 2011. “We’re on a starship. I was head communications officer. Fourth in command on a starship. They didn’t see this as being, oh, it doesn’t happen til the 23rd century. Young people and adults saw it as now.”
Read more about Nichelle Nichols HERE
An abortion rights demonstrator dressed in a Handmaid’s Tale costume, protests outside the United States Supreme Court, after the court ruled in the Dobbs v Women’s Health Organization abortion case, overturning the landmark Roe v Wade abortion decision in Washington, June 24, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein