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Thursday, June 18 2009

Black Trekkie: Tuning Out to Tune In

By Diepiriye Kuku

Avery Brooks, who fronts Star Trek: Deep Space Nine attended Oberlin College and performed a monologue of Paul Robeson my senior year, at our alma mater’s Black Alumni Reunion. This man is bossy. But DS9 requires a wholly different spectatorship than its fellow franchisees.


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