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 […]
Katherine Johnson, a legendary NASA mathematician died Monday. She was 101-years old. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Johnson assisted the United States’ efforts in the first triumphs in human spaceflight and promoted STEM education. She was hired by NASA in 1953 after graduating from West Virginia State college and graduate school. She began her career […]
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 […]
It’s not too often that Black women are represented by characters that are intelligent, confident, instinctually sharp and far from the derivative ABW (“Angry Black Woman”) stereotype. With the Black Panther character Shuri, a phenomenal performance by actress Letitia Wright, we get all that; a woman that embodies all those qualities while simultaneously inspiring rising and […]
Fox 2000 is cooking up a film adaptation to Margot Lee Shetterly’s novel, Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race. Visit streaming.thesource.com for more information Empire star Taraji P. Henson will have the honor of portraying Katherine Johnson. Johnson served as a mathematician behind the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into […]
