“Hidden Figures” begins with a brief 1926 prologue introducing us to a young black girl who is a math prodigy inspiring awe in all who know her. “I’ve never seen,” a teacher tells her ...

The box-office success of best picture nominee "Hidden Figures" is as much an underdog story as the one it tells. When director Theodore Melfi's look at the black female mathematicians who were ...

NEW ORLEANS – A local teacher is continuing the legacy of advancing math and science her grandmother, featured in the new movie “Hidden Figures,” started more than five decades ago.

In Jim Crow America, even math is racialized; “Hidden Figures” provides a fresh angle on how demeaning, demoralizing and crazy it was to live in an era of officially sanctioned white supremacy ...

It takes the combined power of Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe to make math a joy like it never was in high school. There are numbers and geometric shapes aplenty a plenty in ...

Meet the ‘Hidden Figures’ mathematician who helped send Americans into space. ... the movie centers around Katherine G. Johnson, ... What was it that drew you to mathematics? Numbers.

Directed by Theodore Melfi (St. Vincent), Hidden Figures (in theaters Jan. 13)takes audiences back to the early 1960s to look at a group of female African-American mathematicians at NASA who were ...

“Hidden Figures” isn’t just an oppression narrative, however; it’s a movie about people who are good at their jobs, and how their slow, difficult rise runs parallel with the space program ...