Ms. Jackson’s contributions received widespread attention after the release of the 2016 film “Hidden Figures,” which chronicled black women’s work during the space race. By Allyson Waller That “giant ...

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Hidden Figures, written by Margot Lee Shetterly, tells the true story of African-American women mathematicians who worked at NASA in the early days of the U.S. space program. These women and their ...

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 ...

Kevin Costner had a painful experience on the set of “Hidden Figures.” The Oscar winner, 69, revealed in a new interview that he was on a morphine drip after he developed kidney stones while filming ...

A "hidden figure" of GPS development has passed away. Gladys West, 95, died Saturday of natural causes, according to a family X post cited by National Public Radio (NPR). West "passed peacefully ...

Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington ...

Glen Powell has an aversion to rough cuts of his films. Speaking on a recent episode of the Therapuss with Jake Shane podcast, Powell related watching a rough cut of 2016’s Hidden Figures for the ...

A group of Black female scientists and mathematicians known as NASA's “ Hidden Figures” were honored with Congressional Gold Medals on Wednesday, the highest award given to citizens by Congress, for ...