Nichelle Nichols as Nyota Uhura on “Star Trek” (1968).
Nichols was one of the 1st black women featured in a major television series. Her prominent supporting role as a bridge officer was unprecedented. Nichols was once tempted to leave the series; however, a conversation with Martin Luther King Jr. changed her mind.
Rest in peace, beautiful. Thank you for breaking barriers & inspiring so many!
This all happened on school grounds. The Board of Education also assisted in this coverup. Video footage of Kendrick entering the gymnasium was tampered with and erased. That means a public servant had a hand in this as well, by whom and how many we may never know. Kendrick died on school grounds and his body was rolled up in a gymnasium mat with his organs removed, gone, missing. This is America. Where your father being a Federal Agent can set up road blocks on a case that was so gruesome every parent in that township should have wanted… demanded to know how he died but because it was a black persons body they didn’t care.
His name is Eugene Goodman. In a now-viral video, he is seen confronting White Supremacists and using himself as bait to provide cover for the evacuation of lawmakers. He was alone in a hallway when the mob reached him, and Congress was being evacuated to the left. He lured the mob away from lawmakers, drawing them in the opposite direction and up the stairs.
Officer Goodman deserves recognition for his amazing bravery and selflessness. Because of him, Congress was evacuated safely and no lawmakers were assassinated on that terrible day. He risked everything to save others, and he is a hero.
Also if you wanna go a little further back My Wife and Kids replaced Jazz Raycole with Jennifer Freeman. In fact, for the promotion of the show after the new Clare was cast, they didn’t even bother shooting new pictures; they just put Jennifer’s head on Jazz’s body.
I think about this constantly when I see a new Freeform tv show, it’s the paperbag test.
And the biracial girls in the notes are just as insufferable as the white women that hop on black folks posts. Nobody was questioning your blackness we said we want to see DARK SKIN black women not thee same 6 mixed girls all the time!! 🙄 “sO iM nOt bLacK enOuGh!?!?!?” Y'all annoying AF
and when the opportunity arises its never the other way around; an established light skinned character or actress played by a dark skinned actress. its always “im not black enough” in a society that continually tells black girls of the dark variety that their black is way too much… unless they’re showing black women as aggressive and void of any other emotion but anger ie. hollywood, netflix, tyler perry, etc.
Pat
McGrath became a billionaire when Kylie Cosmetics was worth $800
million. Yet the media was still obsessed with “Kylie is almost a
self-made billionaire!” rather than talking about this woman who already
was an actual self-made billionaire.
