The kiss aired one year after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned laws banning interracial marriage. CBS via Getty Images by Matthew Delmont, Dartmouth College On a 1968 episode of “Star Trek,” Nichelle Nichols, playing Lt. Uhura, locked lips with William Shatner’s Capt. Kirk in what’s widely thought to be first kiss between a Black woman … Continued
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