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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 li ....
- even though the twilight zone didn t showcase black characters for the most part in that series, by 1967, it does change and we re seeing more black performers and characters on the network schedule. - you gotta go all the way back to eartha kitt when she came on and took over the role of cat woman. - this is cat woman. - in 1967, she s playing a reimagined version of a white character played by julie newmar. - you ll never have another cat woman like that. i don t think anybody else s tongue works like that. i don t care what you say. - purrr-haps. - grrr, not gonna happen. (purring) (chuckling) - it was so amazing because all of a sudden there s a black woman that is fighting batman. wait a minute. - with eartha kitt s appearance on batman , ....