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What horrible news. I'll be grateful for her role in Star Trek, but more grateful for the work she did with NASA in recruiting more women of color into the organization. RIP Ms. Nichols.
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of?
On to the next, greater journey for Nichelle. When thinking of her life, it was much more interesting outside of Star Trek than within it. I saw her at a few of the big conventions during the 70s and 80s, and to the first point, she had so much more to discuss when it was not about her most famous role.
Some of my family actually had and held onto the January 1967 issue of Ebony--
She continued to be a trailblazer in the 70s, as she was but a handful of black women (along with Josie and the Pussycats' Barbara Pariot) portraying black characters in American animation (which was not the standard practice with the hiring of voice artists, even in the "liberated" 1970s).