Tributes pour in for Nichelle Nichols, a Star Trek classic, and the hailing frequencies go live.

"Our country has lost a pioneer of stage and screen who expanded the boundaries of possibility for African-Americans and women," Biden said. Nichols was born in Chicago to a working class family in December 1932. She studied singing and acting on stage before winning the role of Lieutenant Uhura on the 1960s science fiction series Star Trek. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who saw her as an inspiration as a Black woman on the bridge of t....