Future Black History Month: Laverne Cox Will Ensure We Keep Progressing

Fuse is once again celebrating an extended Black History Month by highlighting a variety of rising forces who are creating Future Black History before our very eyes. These days, there are many worries that America's new leadership is rolling back all the cultural progress and empathy we've created as a nation in recent years, but a superstar like Laverne Cox is a testament to how much further we are set to progress. 

While initially rising to fame as an Orange Is the New Black inmate—becoming Hollywood's most visible transgender actor—Cox spent her last year further pushing her star power and impact. Her biggest cultural moment, to date, came in October from her starting role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in Fox's live remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, owning a role that originally was played by cisgendered, white man. She not only reshaped the gender-bending doctor, but was praised for her role with Broadway World maybe putting it best with, "The musical has broken down doors and helped pave the way for an era of LGBT acceptance so for Cox to step into Tim Curry's iconic fishnets is a victory in its own right."