Three African American women who were portrayed in the 2016 film, "Hidden Figures," will receive Congressional Gold Medals.President Donald Trump signed into law H.R. 1396, the “Hidden Figures ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed legislation into law on Friday to award four African-American women scientists the Congressional Gold Medal for their work at NASA Langley. RELATED ...

MORE: 'Hidden Figures' NASA women to receive Congressional Gold Medals . President Barack Obama presented Johnson with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2015.

GREENSBORO — In the movie “Hidden Figures,” Katherine Johnson is known as the “girl with the numbers,” a mathematical genius who helped launch astronauts like John Glenn into space ...

Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film “Hidden Figures,” about ...