David Yost, Thuy Trang, Jason David Frank, Austin St. John, Amy Jo Johnson, and Walter Jones on 'Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'.

Walter Emanual Jones, best known for his role as the Black Power Ranger in the 1990s "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers," has rejected the notion that casting a Black actor in the role was a mistake.

“Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers” kicked off in August 1993 on Fox Kids, featuring Jones as Zack Taylor (the first Black Ranger) and Thuy Trang as Trini Kwan (the first Yellow Ranger).

Walter Emanuel Jones, a black man, portrayed “Zack Taylor” as the Black Ranger and Thuy Trang, an Asian woman, as the Yellow Ranger “Trini Kwan” in the Emmy-nominated series that ran for ...

Trang paid a steep price after advocating for a fair wage in front of "Power Rangers" creator Haim Saban and Fox boss Rupert Murdoch in 1994.

In the original series, the only Black character, Zack Taylor (Walter Emanuel Jones), and the only Asian character Trini Kwan (Thuy Trang), played the Black and Yellow Rangers, respectively.

Hollywood has a troubling history of punishing those who speak out against exploitation, something original Power Rangers star Thuy Trang learned the hard way. Trang and two of her fellow O.G. rangers ...

I'm Black, and I play the black Ranger — go figure," he says in a clip from the "Dark Side of the Power Rangers." The original Yellow Ranger was played by Thuy Trang.

The show aired on Fox Kids and followed a group of teenagers who become rangers to help protect the Earth. But the show was criticized by viewers for how the Rangers' colors were assigned: Walter ...

The head writer of 'Mighty Morphin Power Rangers' admits it was a mistake to cast Black and Asian actors to play the Black and Yellow Rangers.

“Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” head writer Tony Oliver admits in the new Investigation Discovery series “Hollywood Demons” that it was a “mistake” to cast a Black actor to play the Black Ranger and an ...