“Many actors become stars, but few stars can move a nation,” the actress tweeted. Lynda Carterwho played Wonder Woman on TV in the 1970s.”Nichelle Nichols it showed us the extraordinary power of black women and paved the way for a better future for all women in media. Thank you, Nichelle. We will miss you”.
actress and singer Nichelle Nicholsknown as the communications officer of “Star Trek”the lieutenant uhura, died at age 89 Silver City, New Mexico. “I am sorry to inform you that a great light in the sky no longer shines for us,” his son Kyle Johnson wrote on the website Uhura.com.
“However, its light, like the galaxies now being seen for the first time, will remain for us and future generations to enjoy, learn from and inspire.”
Nichols was one of the first black women who appeared in a major television series. And her role as the lieutenant Nyota Uhura in “Star Trek” original was innovative: its name comes from Uhuru, the Swahili word for “freedom”.
“I, a black woman, was the head of communications for the business. Fourth in command on a starship. Many thought that this would not happen until the 23rd century. But it is happening now”, I celebrated last year, after the arrival of kamala harris to the US vice presidency.
Nichols, who was born Grace Dell Nichols in a Chicago suburb where her father was mayor, grew up singing and dancing, and aspiring to star in a musical In Chicago.
He got his first break in the 1961 musical “Kicks and Co.”, a satire of the magazine Playboybut then she would be the star of “Carmen Jones”, before arriving in New York with the classic “Porgy and Bess”. “It was the highlight and the epitome of my life as a singer, actress and dancer, to have done that work in Broadway“, he said in 2011.
And his beak like Afro-descendant activist would come from the hand of Martin Luther King. “I remember I told him. ‘I wish I could be there marching with you.’ And he said, ‘We don’t need you… to march. You are already leaving. You are reflecting what we are fighting for.’
In 1968, Nichols made headlines when his interracial kiss with Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) revolutionized television and triggered the debate. She and she stayed with Star Trek until it concluded in 1969, but she reprized her role as Uhura in six subsequent films, including “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” where she was promoted to commander.
“My heart is heavy, my eyes shine like the stars among which you now rest, my dear friend,” he concluded. George Takei on Twitter, who co-starred in “Star Trek” as helmsman Hikaru Sulu.
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