‘Hidden Figures’: 10 of the Film’s Stars and Their Real-Life Inspirations. The untold story of the three African-American, female mathematicians who helped win the Space Race even as they ...

For a number of reasons, straight biopics and even films simply based on actual events have taken to playing up the real-life people behind their stories this season.

NASA's real life 'Modern Figure' Dr. Johnson shares the lessons she has learnt throughout her career at NASA and how each of us can support the advancement of women in STEM.

In what is sure to be one of the most memorable moments from the 2017 Oscars, the stars of Hidden Figures paid a loving tribute to the real life women who inspired their film. Janelle Monae ...

Real-life 'Hidden Figure' has connection to Durham. By DeJuan Hoggard. Saturday, February 25, 2017. One of the real-life 'Hidden Figures' has a connection to the Triangle.

Most Americans are familar with 1962's historic Friendship 7 flight, in which John Glenn became the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth. But little do most of us know, there was an equally ...

Real-life women of "Hidden Figures" Women working as so-called "human computers" dates back decades before space exploration. In the late 19th century, ...

"Hidden Figures," which stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monae in the lead roles -- based on a trio of real-life numbers-crunching, status-quo-defying women who, through ...

Katherine Johnson, the woman who inspired Taraji P. Henson’s character in Hidden Figures, is now part of a Lego set honoring women at NASA, and she’s joined by four very badass colleagues.

There is a scene in the new feature film "Hidden Figures" where Octavia Spencer, portraying a real-life NASA mathematician, leads a group of her fellow African American women "computers" down a ...

The friendship between the real women got them through the issues of the day, and co-writer and director Theodore Melfi believes most of the themes in Hidden Figures are still a part of our world ...

‘Hidden Figures’: 10 of the Film’s Stars and Their Real-Life Inspirations. The untold story of the three African-American, female mathematicians who helped win the Space Race even as they ...