Hidden Figures: A Movie About the Genius, Resilience, and Humanity of Black Women
Today, I watched "Hidden Figures," the biographical drama film based on the non-fiction book of Margot Lee Shetterly. In the film star Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe as Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, respectively, the black NASA employees who participated in calculating flight trajectories for Project Mercury in 1962.
Katherine Globe Johnson, known as the "Black Woman Who Advanced Human Rights and Humanity With A Slide Rule and a Pencil" (see AfroAmerica Network), is the