In the 2016 nonfiction book and 2017 film “Hidden Figures,” three mathematicians who are Black women play a crucial, behind-the-scenes role in helping America even the scales in the space race against the Soviet Union by enabling John Glenn’s first successful orbit of the Earth. In 2021, we have a variant on that theme on…
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