Lt. Uhura was the communications officer in the original Star Trek series. She is given credit for being the first Black woman on a network television show to play a continuing character who was (a) a major part of the plot and, (b) was not stereotyped as a housekeeper, cook, etc.

Two years later, Diahann Carroll starred in the television show, "Julia " whereupon she moved the bar higher by being the first Black woman to star in a show playing a character with those same qualities.

By Stephen Brau and Richard A. Serrano
LOS ANGELES TIMES

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Attorneys for two men who sought presidential clemency say that their clients were solicited to pay large sums of money in return for Roger Clinton's help in their cases.

In one case, a Texas man paid $200,000 in two installments to an Arkansas company to secure clemency from imprisonment for fraud, said New York lawyer Edward W. Hayes. The convict was not released.

In the second, Arkansas lawyer Gene O'Daniel said his client, a North Little Rock caterer, was approached to pay $30,000 in return for Roger Clinton's help in winning pardon for a 10-year-old felony conviction.