Hidden Figures (Movie 2016)

Hidden Figures was released back in 2016 and has now premiered on HBO this weekend. If like myself you didn't see it in the theaters check this one out now. The story is based on the the true events of 3 black women who played major roles in NASA's burgeoning space program back in the 60s. Katherine Johnson (Taraji Henson), Dorothy Vaughn (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson's (Janelle Monae) names are not widely known in America even though they are pioneers not only for their race but their gender as well. We see in the movie the difficulty of trying to make what seemed impossible possible by putting a man in space but doing so in the midst of racism and a patriarchal system. When Katherine is put into head engineer Paul Stafford's ( Kevin Costner) Space Task Group she has to run half a mile on the property of the research facility just to use a "Colored Women" bathroom. What this movie brought to mind is that recent commercial by GE that speculated what if our heroes and superstars were scientists and geniuses instead of movies stars and sports figures. We need to hear more stories like these Hidden Figures.