Noyota Uhura, played by Nichelle Nichols, was the first Black women to have a role on TV screen where the color of her skin did not matter, but rather what her character had to offer as a communications officer in the Star Strek science fiction franchise.

As briefly mentioned in the DUST youtube channel, Nichelle Nichols was not entirely convinced on continuing in the Star Strek franchice until Martin Luther King voiced how important her character was to portraying a character where she was seen as an equal.

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During one of our lectures with Professor Alexander, I remember walking into the lecture hall to some very odd tunes that sounded both hypnotizing and out of this world. A few minutes into lecture and Professor Alexander showed us that he had been playing an album by Drexciya.

I can't remember if at the time we had already discussed Afrofuturism, but it was still an entirely new concept I had never heard of: Afrofuturism. Now I am able to look back and realize how these "hypnotizing sounds" were part of a larger idea of exploring otherwordly sounds that resembled a far away future imagined by Afrofuturistic ideas; a new world where the problems of now may be nonexistant then.