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Ah, that's a shame. RIP.
From Reddit:
Oh man, what a pioneer. She wanted to quit the show and was personally urged to stay by Dr. Martin Luther King...
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It was 1967, and reviews for the first season of Star Trek were not great. Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Nyota Uhura, had bigger issues with the show. She found it demoralizing to see her lines cut and cut again. She had to deal with racist insults off set, as well as from executives who conspired to keep her from seeing her fan mail.
At the end of the first season, Nichols recounted in her autobiography, she told the show’s creator she was done.
But the next day, at an NAACP function, a fan greeted her: Martin Luther King Jr. He told her how important her role was and how he and his family watched Star Trek faithfully and adored her in particular — the only Black character.
Nichols thanked him, but said she planned to leave. “You cannot and you must not,” she recalls him saying. “Don’t you realize how important your presence, your character is? ... Don’t you see? This is not a Black role, and this is not a female role. You have the first non stereotypical role on television, male or female. You have broken ground.
“... For the first time,” he continued, “the world sees us as we should be seen, as equals, as intelligent people — as we should be.”She stayed for the next two seasons of the series, lent her voice to an animated version and appeared in a half-dozen Star Trek movies. She had the first interracial kiss in American television. She recruited for NASA. Through her work, she influenced Mae Jemison — the first Black female astronaut.
Though to my shame, for the longest time I thought her name was Michelle Nichols.
First new post on this one...Nichelle Nichols passed....very sad news about a very impressive lady
Olivia Newton-John has died at the age of 73
I remember the Grease songs coming out during my final year of primary school, overlapping into the first year of 'big' school (*) - it was absolutely massive at the time, with everyone talking about it and loving it, boys and girls alike. (*) same year that Tucker Jenkins started at 'Grange Hill'.
I even bought the photostory book with my paper round money - I imagine it would be worth something nowadays! ... ?
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https://twitter.com/SpennyLove/status/1556725147431682049
Roger E. Mosley, best known for his role as helicopter pilot Theodore "T.C." Calvin on the '80s hit show Magnum P.I., died Aug. 7. He was age 83.
Edit: Any reason to post this:
https://twitter.com/danielcrosby/status/1278146637613981696?s=20&t=JDqvPYbvocWTwmEc03g-_w
Never mind one of those years this is one of those days
Issey Miyake fashion designer
or the great Lamont Dozier - of "Holland, Holland and Lamont Dozier " great Motown writer and producer
Raymond Briggs a British illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author, made most famous by The Snowman, has died aged 88.
