NASA is honoring one of its pioneers in Mary W. Jackson. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson. Jackson was the first African American female engineer at NASA. Advertisement “Mary W. Jackson was part of a group […]
The once Hidden Figure Katherine Johnson will never be hidden from the world again.NASA has changed the name of a facility in Fairmount West Virginia to the “Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility” to honor the trailblazing NASA Mathematician Kathrine Johnson. According to USA Today, The Katherine Johnson Independent Verification and Validation Facility in […]
This past June, Mareena Robinson Snowden became the first Black woman to ever get her Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information She declared the point of reference in an Instagram post: “No one can tell me God isn’t. Grateful is the best word I have to […]
Television is adding more #BlackGirlMagic in the near future, as new reports reveal that a TV series to the 2016 film Hidden Figures is in development at National Geographic. In the report by Variety, Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping are producing the Nat Geo series. Chernin and Topping also directed the film, which was nominated for […]
Taraji P. Henson confirmed in an interview on January 9th, that she will starring in, as well as producing a film about the life and murder of Emmett Till. Taraji told Global Grind. “We don’t have a start date yet, but the deal has definitely been done. That’s one project that I’ve been passionate about since […]
The 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards are just around the corner. The critically acclaimed horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele, Get Out, took a lead with a total of six nomination – Best Actor In a Movie for Daniel Kaluva, Movie of the Year, Best Villain for Allison Williams, Best Comedic Performance for Lil […]
Following two consecutive years of failing to adequately acknowledge diversity in film, it seems that The Academy has finally gotten the memo–or at least begun to do so. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Tuesday morning [January 23, 2017] a total of six African-American films were thrust into the running for this year’s Oscars along with their […]
Hollywood starlet Taraji P. Henson attended the Chicago International Film Festival, talking her new role as NASA’s math genius, space scientist and American physicist Katherine Johnson, at a panel discussion. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information AMC Theater, the Streeterville theater located in downtown Chicago, hosted the red carpet event, where media and ticket holders previewed 25-minutes of […]
Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monáe, and Octavia Spencer have joined forces to teach us a part of history many of us never knew. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Based on Margot Lee Shetterly’s upcoming book of the same title, Hidden Figures, tells the untold true story of the three Black women who helped launch the first American astronaut John […]
The true story of the black women who served as mathematicians during NASA’s race to space are having their stories being told on film in a new production by 20th Century Fox. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe) portray the brilliant […]
After leaving us all hanging off a balcony anticipating the next season of Empire, Taraji P. Henson has already landed a new role drastically different from her Golden Globe winning performances as Cookie Lyon. Henson is starring in a new movie titled Hidden Figures alongside Janelle Monae and Octavia Spencer. Henson plays Katherine Johnson, a […]
