Actress and singer Nichelle Nichols, died Saturday night in Silver City, New Mexico. She was 89 years old.
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Nichols was one of the first Black women featured in a major television series,
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Her role as Lt. Nyota Uhura-original TV series was groundbreaking: an African American woman whose name came from Uhuru, the Swahili word for "freedom."
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"Here I was projecting in the 23rd century what should have been quite simple," Nichols told NPR in 2011.
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Nichols was born Grace Dell Nichols in a Chicago suburb where her father was the mayor.
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She grew up singing and dancing, aspiring to star in musical theater.
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She got her first break in the 1961 musical Kicks and Co., a thinly veiled satire of Playboy magazine.
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She was the star of the Chicago stock company production of Carmen Jones, and in New York performed in Porgy and Bess.
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"Nichelle Nichols showed us the extraordinary power of Black women and paved the way for a better future for all women in media.
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