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Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. A teen baseball star from Newfoundland and Labrador is making history once again — this time by being one of the first players drafted to the new …

Nichelle Nichols, who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood when she played communications officer Lt. Uhura on the original Star Trek television series, has died. She was 89. Her son Kyle Johnson said Nichols died Saturday in Silver City, N.M. “Last night, my mother, Nichelle Nichols, succumbed to natural causes …