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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five Congressional Gold Medals were bestowed to the women who worked as at NASA as mathematicians and engineers during the space ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hopper Stone/Twentieth Century Fox ; NASA/Donaldson Collection/Getty Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures (2016) ; NASA space ...

This analysis is spoiler-free. But the narrative also charts how Hampton, Virginia emerged as a driving force for aeronautics innovation and racial integration -- even as the state fought against the ...

A group of Black women, crucial to NASA's achievements during the space race and famously known as the "Hidden Figures," were honored with a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Capitol Hill. These ...

Glen Powell thought he ruined Hidden Figures. The actor, who portrayed astronaut John Glenn in the 2016 movie, made a recent appearance on the Therapuss with Jake Shane podcast, and spoke out seeing a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...