{"id":39439,"date":"2018-03-16T14:51:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T18:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=39439"},"modified":"2018-03-16T14:51:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-16T18:51:54","slug":"sheila-d-minor-a-hidden-figure-found-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/sheila-d-minor-a-hidden-figure-found-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheila D. Minor: A “Hidden Figure,” Found on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you didn’t already see the movie Hidden Figures<\/em><\/a> about the black female mathematicians who helped the U.S. win the space race<\/a>, I highly recommend that you catch up with it now. It’s based on the best-selling book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly<\/a>. I saw it with MrB and my designing friend Stacy Lomman last year, and we were all on pins and needles waiting to see if astronaut John Glenn would survive his orbit around the earth — even though that journey took place in 1962<\/a> and we knew damn well that he did survive! It’s an achievement for a movie to create that much suspense around the outcome of a well-known event while simultaneously giving long overdue credit to people who made that historical feat possible.<\/p>\n