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Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
This list of black animated characters lists fictional characters found on animated television series and in motion pictures, from 2010 to 2019.The Black people in this list include African American animated characters and other characters of Sub-Saharan African descent or populations characterized by dark skin color (a definition that also includes certain populations in Oceania, the southern ...
This list of black animated characters lists fictional characters found on animated television series and in motion pictures.The Black people in this list include African American animated characters and other characters of Sub-Saharan African descent or populations characterized by dark skin color (a definition that also includes certain populations in Oceania, the southern West Asia, and the ...
Vaughan is one of the women featured in Margot Lee Shetterly's history Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016). It was adapted as a biographical film of the same name, also released in 2016. In 2019, Vaughan was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously. [1]
Emmett Kelly – American tramp clown; Frankie Saluto – American clown, Ringling Bros. circus; The Fratellini Family – family of French clowns; George Carl – American clown who performed mainly in Europe. Glen "Frosty" Little – America's last living Master Clown and longtime "Boss Clown" with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey ...
Brenda Lee Banks (July 19, 1948 – December 30, 2020) was an American animator, who was one of the first African American women to work as a professional animator. [ 1 ] History
Montgomery's film and TV roles included Matlock (TV series), Law & Order, Malcolm X and Joe the King. [ 15 ] In theater, Montgomery staged Spunk (1990) and Broadway's [ 19 ] production of Mule Bone (1991), as well as Digging Eleven , I Ain’t Yo Uncle : The New Jack Revisionist Uncle Tom's Cabin , The Colored Museum and …Love, Langston at ...
Mae Carol Jemison was born in Decatur, Alabama, on October 17, 1956, [1] [2] the youngest of three children of Charlie Jemison and Dorothy Jemison (née Green). [3] Her father was a maintenance supervisor for a charity organization, and her mother worked most of her career as an elementary school teacher of English and math at the Ludwig van Beethoven Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois.