- 1. 7 Best Biopics About Women to Watch When You Need to Feel Inspired (and 1 For When You Don't
- (Movies)
- ... Vaughn, Janelle Monae as Mary Jackson, and Taraji P. Henson as Katherine G. Johnson, it's truly a film that should be at the top of everyone's "to watch" list. Hidden Figures is available for streaming on ...
- Created on 30 November 2022
- 2. Ava DuVernay, Taraji P Henson, Cynthia Erivo And More: 9 Movies & Shows Featuring Black Women You Need to Stream This Black History Month
- (Entertainment)
- ... up your world. Stream it on Netflix, or watch it for free here. Hidden Figures (2016) Inspired by a true story, Hidden Figures highlights Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson: ...
- Created on 16 February 2022
- 3. NASA Renames Headquarters After First Black Woman Engineer, Mary W. Jackson
- (Feminism)
- ... Congressional Gold Medal Act was signed into law. Congressional gold medals will go to Katherine Johnson and Dr. Christine Darden (and Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson posthumously). Celebrate the women ...
- Created on 25 June 2020
- 4. Ditch Your White Savior Complex: 10 More Documentaries To Watch About Racism Instead Of “The Help”
- (Movies)
- ... at NASA, we all pee the same color.” And while this is a powerful moment, it never happened in the book or real life and it completely overlooks the way Katherine Johnson took her own stand against Segregation. ...
- Created on 10 June 2020
- 5. The Four Black NASA Women Who Inspired “Hidden Figures” Are Getting Congressional Gold Medals
- (Feminism)
- ... field for years to come.” Engineers Christine Darden and Mary Jackson, mathematician Katherine Johnson, and computer programmer Dorothy Vaughan were awarded Congressional Gold Medals after President ...
- Created on 13 November 2019
- 6. Taraji P. Henson On Committing To Her Relationship, Ignoring Her Age, and "Seeing Her Money
- (Entertainment)
- ... is the relatability she brings to every role, whether it’s formerly incarcerated record executive Cookie Lyon or real-life NASA research mathematician Katherine Johnson, whom she portrayed in 2016’s Hidden ...
- Created on 24 March 2019
- 7. "To All The Boys I've Loved Before" Is Netflix's Best Rom-Com
- (Movies)
- ... for humor here in ways both similar to and different from 10 Things. Anna Cathcart’s Katherine Covey is the recognizable precocious youngest sibling who, as she notes to Lara Jean early in the movie, ...
- Created on 21 August 2018
- 8. Week of Women: March 16-22, 2018
- (Entertainment)
- ... stars as Simon, with a supporting cast including Katherine Langford and Alexandra Shipp as Simon’s friends and Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel as Simon’s parents (yes, we’re old). Greg Berlanti directs ...
- Created on 15 March 2018
- 9. There’s Now A Frida Kahlo Barbie: Link Roundup
- (Feminism)
- Frida Kahlo Gets Her Own Barbie Just before International Women’s Day, Mattel has revealed their plans to release 17 new “Inspiring Women” Barbie dolls, based on real-life women icons including Katherine ...
- Created on 07 March 2018
- 10. Week Of Women: December 15-21, 2017
- (Entertainment)
- ... politician Shirley Chisholm, mathematician Katherine Johnson, and filmmaker Julie Dash. PODCASTS BUST's Poptarts: I, Tonya In BUST’s latest episode of Poptarts, editors Emily and Callie talk about ...
- Created on 14 December 2017
- 11. LEGO Takes One Huge Step For Womankind
- (Feminism)
- Update 10/18/17: Lego has blessed us with the final design of the Lego versions of these amazing scientists, and a release date just in time for the holidays. In the original announcement, Katherine ...
- Created on 02 March 2017
- 12. 11 Oscars Moments You Should Actually Care About
- (Movies)
- ... to EVER win an Oscar, and the fifth black actor to win Best Supporting Actor. Ali welcomed his first child just a few days before the Oscars, so he is having THE BEST WEEK. 4. Katherine Johnson made ...
- Created on 27 February 2017
- 13. How 'Hidden Figures' Let Me See Mysel
- (Movies)
- ... I figured out the logic behind problems. Then my goal became practicing to solve them faster and faster. When the little girl (younger Katherine Johnson) went to the board to solve the problem; I had ...
- Created on 10 February 2017
- 14. 14 Books By Women To Make Your February A Little Brighter
- (Books)
- ... as “fragments patiently biding their time in footnotes and family anecdotes and musty folders before returning to view”—and chronicles the careers of four women: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine ...
- Created on 06 February 2017
- 15. 11 Political Moments From The SAG Awards You Should Pay Attention To
- (Movies)
- ... of the women that we stand on are three American heroes. Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson — without them we would not know how to reach the stars.” As Henson spoke, her co-stars Janelle ...
- Created on 30 January 2017
- 16. Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monae And Octavia Spencer Are Starring In A Movie About The Black Women Who Sent The First Man To The Moon
- (Entertainment)
- ... do you in. Hidden Figures is an untold true story starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae in the roles of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson, aka three of the women ...
- Created on 16 August 2016
- 17. 12 Brilliant Female Mathematicians You Should Know
- (Feminism)
- ... the first at a historically black school. Throughout her years as an educator, she focused especially on encouraging math education for minorities and women. 11. Katherine Johnson (1918-Present) An ...
- Created on 14 March 2016
- 18. 5 Women In Science You Need To Know About
- (Books)
- ... as lesser-known pioneers (but most-likely known to BUSTies) such as Katherine Johnson, the African-American physicist and mathematician who calculated the trajectory of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission to the ...
- Created on 14 March 2016
- 19. April/May 2009
- (Magazine)
- ... how Mother’s Day came to be. By Katherine Jamieson Khan Artist Find out what’s going on with Bat for Lashes’ Natasha Khan. By Victoria Woodcock, photos by Guy Aroch BROADCASTS Free to ...
- Created on 22 May 2009
