The story of Nichelle Nichols and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Actress Nichelle Nichols who made television history in the 1960s with her portrayal of “Star Trek” character Lieutenant Nyota Uhura – a breakthrough role that showed an African American woman in a position of power as the fourth in command of a starship. At the end of the first season, however, Nichols was frustrated by the show’s development and considering a move back to Broadway until she met a very special fan who convinced her how important her role on the show was – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
After Nichols told Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry that she was leaving the show, he encouraged her to think it over. That weekend, she attended a fundraiser for the NAACP and met King who told her he was a “Trekkie” and “Lieutenant Uhura’s most ardent fan.” As Nichols described in an interview with the Huffington Post, when King learned that she was leaving, he urged her to stay, stating:
“‘Don’t you realize how important your presence, your character is? This is not a black role or a female role. You have the first nonstereotypical role on television. You have broken ground’… ‘Here we are marching, and there you are projecting where we’re going. You cannot leave [the show]. Don’t you understand what you mean?’ I told him that when I would go on hiatus from the show, I could come and march with him and he said, ‘No! You’re an image for us. We look on that screen and we know where we’re going.’ It was like he was saying, ‘Free at last, free at last!’”
Nichols did stay on the show with its entire run and went on to make history again in 1968 as part of the first scripted interracial kiss on TV with William Shatner, who played the show’s lead character, Captain James T. Kirk. Nichols’ groundbreaking character had a huge cultural influence, especially as a role model for many African American girls. Mae Jemison, the first African American woman in space, has cited her as an important influence and even used Uhura’s signature line “Hailing frequencies open” during the course of her duties on the space shuttle.”
NASA hired her in 1975 to make promotional films and appear in materials aimed at encouraging women and men of colour to apply for the astronaut program and as a result there was around 8,000 applicants from the groups she had been courting, out of that number that showed up to try the next class of 35 astronauts had 8 women and 6 men of colour included with it.
She kept up with working with them for a long long time after that too, got a lot of people involved in all kinds of STEM fields that just needed a little push to give it a try.
It’s literally a *checks notes* military issue greatcoat. Which EVERY MILITARY SINCE 1900 (when this style gained popularity) has developed and copied and perfected over time.
British military officers circa 1940
“Tweedleland” add circa 1916 for WW1 “trench coat”.
1940s US Army air force “warm coat”/trench coat/greatcoat
What the Gestapo over coat/fancy dress ACTUALLY looked like.
And finally, a double breasted long wool coat which any average joe can buy off Amazon.
Pewdiepie put on a British Officers uniform to test on whether people would actually be stupid enough to call him a Nazi and they took the bait with flying colors, great to see people just never, ever learn anything.
Remember when people tried to make a thing about trump having a thing at madison square garden because the americn nazi party had done something there too?
We hit a major moment of hitler drank water too with that one, which got even funner when people pulled out the fact that the 1992 democratic national convention that officially nominated bill clinton was held there too.
I don’t give a shit about this guy up here in the coat, I’m just tired of all the stupidity from people looking to connect things they don’t like to historically bad things,
it’s pathetic
Remember when people tried to make a thing about trump having a thing at madison square garden because the americn nazi party had done something there too?
American Folk Art Museum curator Valérie Rousseau gives a tour of “Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets.” Photo by Olya Vysotskaya, courtesy of the American Folk Art Museum.
My mom and I were able to see this exhibit last spring, and it was incredible!
I had a veeeeery long day of handling dodgy circuit breakers and making large batches of applesauce (add dash of lemon juice, cardamom, and strawberries -trust me). But finally I got a chance to sit down…
ZREO, Zelda Reorchestrated, was a fan group started in ‘04 dedicated to composing Legend of Zelda music from it’s then MIDI sounds to more natural and grander sounding music (sometimes even shell out for real orchestras and choirs). Over the years ZREO has it’s ups and downs, it’s breaks and waves of productivity. But it’s great that even twenty years down the road, it still releases gems like this. Truely a testament of talents of creators and Koji Kondo’s compositions. You don’t even have to care for Zelda to enjoy this arrangement. The song’s like Bolero, a really short melody, played again, becoming more loud and grander than before. It’s a simple approach but it works. Like a chocolate chip cookie, you don’t have to reinvent it, just make it good and everyone will like it.
(Speaking of Bolero, that was originally supposed to be the original Zelda song till Koji Kondo discovered it was still copy written in Japan, so he had to compose an original song. Though some fans suspect he took great inspirations from a Deep Purple song. For another Sunday.)
This is beautiful, I don’t really have anything I can add here other than my puzzlement at adding strawberries into applesauce, I imagine the way the sugars mix does some good stuff with the flavour so not any major questions at least.
That and a wonder if the choice of a song from
Majora’s Mask was inspired by the fact that the game was mentioned earlier today on my page, but honestly that would be incredibly silly if it was so I’m just going to let that be.
I don’t really have anything I can add here other than my puzzlement at adding strawberries into applesauce, I imagine the way the sugars mix does some good stuff with the flavour…
The strawberries are also cooked and mashed. It gives the apple sauce a pink look and a spring-time flavor.
Cowboy Bebop is so funny. You’ve got 3 depressed adults all running from their past and living with heartbreak then you have this 13 year old girl who is the human equivalent of a golden retriever. She’s practically incapable of comprehending negative emotions and she’s just out there living her best life with her friends.
There wasent a 13 year old girl in it though.
That’s just cosplay not the real show.
Its a real show on netflix
My sister cancelled her Netflix when the show didn’t get it’s second season
