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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four Black women who worked as scientists and mathematicians at NASA during the Space Race , known colloquially as “Hidden Figures ...

Sept. 18 (UPI) --Four pioneering Black women received Congressional Gold Medals for their contributions to early efforts at space exploration during a formal ceremony at Emancipation Hall in the U.S.

For any moviegoer looking for an interesting history lesson or simply an entertaining film, “Hidden Figures” is for you. Based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s book of the same name, “Hidden Figures” tells ...

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An Arkansas woman who was a pioneer in the field of aeronautical mathematics and physics is now a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. But Dorothy Hoover of Hope still remains somewhat of a ...

The movie based on Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson was the top-grossing Oscar-nominated film of 2017 Hidden Figures may have been a box office sensation thanks to its leading ...

Four Black women who worked as scientists and mathematicians at NASA during the Space Race , known colloquially as “Hidden Figures,” were awarded Congressional Gold Medals on Wednesday for their ...