They thought it was gonna make 700 million, but it actually made 1. 3 billion. So it had a business impact, it had a community impact, it opened up doors. dramatic music Rocket Thrusting it showed that these kinds of stories, looking at black speculative fiction, looking at afrofuturism and blacks in scifi, looking at horror was also highly profitable. Scifi is really a conversation about our humanity and mans relationship to technology and exploring other worlds. Its really exciting to know that more blackcentric Science Fiction is making its way onto the television screens, finally. Black people have always loved Science Fiction and have always loved fantasy. We just didnt know it. When you think of how broad that landscape is, to not include every single individual that is participating in the world, then its a lie. We have millions and millions of stories that need to be told. And us getting our due is literally just opening the gates for everyone else. upbeat music no Ray Gun Firi
television executives began to see what blacks could bring to this world of science fiction, and we got to see more afterwards. - [captain kirk] space, the final frontier. ( star trek theme music) - as the 60s progressed, a new frontier was being forged. and one of those was star trek , developed and created by gene roddenberry. - it s very serious. - engage. (electronic beeping) - star trek was a landmark moment where we lived in this new egalitarian society. and gene roddenberry talked about the idea of having a flight crew of different races. - when i brought in a mixed racial crew, both the network and desilu studios, which had it at that time, came in saying, what are you doing? you re going to ruin us. - [captain kirk] lieutenant uhura. (intense music) - that was one of the first times i saw myself
t.j. jakes speaks out on that, politics, and his fellow pastor s divorce and sex misconduct allegations. paying tribute. remembering families who celebrate the holidays without their loved ones who died in combat. our fallen heroes. it s all right here right now on cnn. good evening. thanks for joining us. i m don lemon. tonight, los angeles police are trying to figure out why a gunman started shooting at passing cars in hollywood. oh, my god. this is sunset and vine. one of the well most intersections in los angeles. police shot and killed the gunman after this video was taken. he s identified at 25-year-old tyler greene. during the rampage people on the street scrambled for cover. he was shooting, like a car drove by and he shot into the car. cars started to swerve and braking and so then at that point i kind of ducked down behind the water fountain and ran into the bank and they locked all the doors. this video was shot by christopher johns from his apartment
people are an invented people. we re going to have reaction to his controversial remarks. plus, look at this live picture from arlington national cemetery. hundreds of volunteers are laying wreaths on the graves of american s fallen warriors. and if you think it s just too cold to get out of bed and go to work, it may change your mind. a total eclipse of the moon. you re looking at live images there right now. we want to start this hour with controversial comments from a republican presidential candidate, newt gingrich. take a listen to what he said. i believe with the jewish people have the right to have a state. i believe that the commitments that were made at a time, remember, there were there was no palestine as a state. and i think that we ve had an invented palestinian people who are arabs and historically part of the arab community. now he said the palestinians are an invented people. he made those comments during that interview as you saw there on the jewish c
party. we re going to take you live there in just a few moments. also, as though you can take anymore of this. new allegations this morning that the head of the amateur athletic union may have sexually abused two boys decades ago. two men tell espn that robert bobby dodd molested them back in the 19 0s when they were playing on his aau baseball team. there s been no comment from dodd. he s battling colon cancer right now. there was a candlelight vigil last night on the virginia tech campus. they were remembering a police officer that was killed. the officer was killed before the gunman killed himself. he was a part-time student at nearby radford university. they re still searching for a motive. people trying to come together after that. the supreme court has agreed to hear a challenge to texas s congressional redistricting plan. state republicans aren t real happy with the way a federal court redrew the map last month. that court was responding to a lawsuit filed on beh