Sep 3, 2025
STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - SEPTEMBER 3, 2025 - YOU TUBE VIDEO: SMITHSONIAN CHANNEL - Nichelle Nichols on Uhura's Radical Impact
From September 1, 2015.
Star Trek’s decision to cast Nichelle Nichols, an African American woman, as major character on the show was an almost unheard-of move in 1968. But for black women all over the country, it redefined the notions of what was possible.