Quick facts – From hidden space heroes to artists, 10 women written out of history
LondonThomson Reuters Foundation Everyone who contributed to Neil Armstrong’s milestone of becoming the first man to walk on the moon will be celebrated on Saturday’s 50th anniversary, including women who for many years were left in the shadows. The 2016 Oscar-nominated film Hidden Figures highlighted the role of black, female NASA mathematicians in the US […]
No more female ‘Hidden Figures’ as NASA renames street
New York City, US Thomson Reuters Foundation NASA renamed the street block in front of its Washington, DC, headquarters “Hidden Figures Way” on Wednesday in honour of black women who have contributed to the US space programme. The work of three black mathematicians – Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – at the National […]
ON THE SCREEN: ‘HIDDEN FIGURES’ CONFRONTS SOME HARD TRUTHS, BOTH HISTORIC AND CONTEMPORARY
NILS VON KALM finds that ‘Hidden Figures’, set amid the civil rights struggles of the US the 1960s, has much to say to us today…