Hidden Figures

Meet the women you don’t know behind the mission you do. Check out the new poster from Hidden Figures, starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe. In theaters January 13.

Today's guest post looks at the lives of the three amazing women featured in Hidden Figures, as well as the larger conversation the movie opened up.

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Here’s the first look at Hidden Figures, the story of pioneering yet unsung Black women—namely the “human computers” Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughn (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monae)—who worked at NASA during the intersection of defining moments of the American Century: the Cold War, the Space Race, the Civil Rights movement and the quest for gender equality.