Nichelle Nichols is best known for her role as Lt. Nyota Uhura in the original Star Trek, but many don't know Nichols pioneered the NASA recruiting program to hire people of color and the first female astronauts for the space agency in the late 1970s and 1980s. Don’t miss this inspirational story featuring notable celebrities, activists, scientists and astronauts including Neil deGrasse Tyson, George Takei, Martin Luther King III, Al Sharpton and more when Woman in Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star

LIEUTENANT NYOTA UHURA When I was working on this image of Lt. Uhura, it hit me—she might be the stealth hero who first nudged me toward the whole science-and-tech rabbit hole. Picture this: two wide-eyed kids—me and my English breddrin—parked in front of the TV, absorbing every chirp of the Enterprise bridge. Kirk’s swagger was cool, Spock’s logic was slick, but Uhura? She radiated that “I belong here” confidence that my younger self rarely saw on-screen. Think about it: a Black woman at the co