Category: To Be Equal

TO BE EQUAL, by Marc H. Morial, President and CEO, National Urban League “Everybody, come quick, come quick; there's a black lady on television and she ain't no maid!”  -- Whoopi Goldberg Fed up with racist insults on set and longing to make her way as a Broadway musical star, Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols already had given showrunner Gene Roddenberry her letter of resignation when she met Martin Luther King, Jr., at a Beverly Hills fundraiser. He implored her not to quit, telling her that Star Trek was the only television show he and...