Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures (2016) ; NASA space scientist, and mathematician Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1966 in Hampton, Virginia. The behind-the-scenes calculations ...
Margot Lee Shetterly, author of the No. 1 New York Times bestselling book “Hidden Figures,” told an appreciative crowd Wednesday evening that the three Black women she wrote about who worked as ...
Hidden Figures may have been a box office sensation thanks to its leading ladies Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe, but it was the story of the real NASA women behind the film that ...