In “Hidden Figures,” a black woman’s prolonged ... (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia ... she quietly explains to a judge that ordering the desegregation of the school ...

But mostly and most memorably, “Hidden Figures” is about Katherine, Dorothy and Mary, three remarkable and groundbreaking American heroes. Henson, Spencer and Monae are all so good.

The new Oscar-nominated movie Hidden Figures is a true story about three African American women who worked as “human computers” at the NASA Research Center in Langley, Va. in the early ‘60s ...

Before IBM mainframes took over NASA’s number-crunching duties, the organization’s “computers” wore skirts. While an all-male team of engineers performed the calculations for potential ...

Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson and Janelle Monae in "Hidden Figures," the Oscar-nominated film about three black scientists who helped put men into space. Octavia Spencer, Taraji P. Henson and ...

Hidden Figures is one of those movies that critics have already fallen in love with. It could snag a couple Oscar nominations, but here in the Triangle, we are only just now getting to see it. Ah ...

Hidden Figures, the first adapted screenplay in our Oscar series, may give some of its biggest moments to NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), but it's really the story of ...

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 ...

Film Review: ‘Hidden Figures’ Feel-good drama reveals the largely untold way in which race factored into the U.S.-Soviet space race.

Computers weren’t always an electronic device – it was a job done by black women – but the relations of 1960s black politics, culture and space were far more complex than ‘Hidden Figures ...