How MLK Saved Star Trek

By Matthew Yglesias

Via Julian Sanchez, Nichelle Nichols explains how Martin Luther King convinced her to stay on Star Trek: See web-only content:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/02/how-mlk-saved-em-star-trek-em/48526/ It sounds bizarre at first glance, but as she lays the story out it makes perfect sense.

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