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‘Us’ Movie Review: Lupita Nyong’o Is the Horror Heroine We’ve Been Waiting For

Horror movies aren’t the best when it comes to diversity. The genre’s been slow to add women in fresh ways, and black people, typically, don’t fare well. Female characters are often reduced to stereotypes: scream queens in short skirts who screech and squirm their way through blood-soaked landscapes before meeting an untimely death. But Jordan…

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NASA Honors 'Hidden Figures' Heroine Katherine Johnson With a Research Building Named After Her

PHOTO: Courtesy of 20th Century Fox It has been a big year for Katherine Johnson, the “human computer” who served as the brains behind NASA’s launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. Hidden Figures, the movie based on her inspiring—though, until recently, largely unknown—career premiered in January 2017. Taraji P. Henson portrayed Johnson onscreen, and…

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