Black / Latinx / Indigenous Characters: Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, Levi Jackson, Joshua Coleman, and Joylette Coleman

Challenges Stereotypes: When three black women worked in NASA at that time

Inspires Activism: To black women to be open and fight for recognition in science, arts and any other discipline they stand out

Girl Power: Women empowerment is very present in this movie when three black women worked at NASA in the ’60

Variety of Shapes and Sizes: People of different shapes and sizes appear in this movie

Critical, Logical Thinking (Creativity): Our three main characters show logical thinking due to their profession and the duty they worked on

High Aspirations: These women had high aspirations and worked hard to accomplish their goals

Know-How (High Skills): Most characters in this movie showed to have high skills in different science fields

Love for Self (Confidence): Dorothy, Mary, and Katherine were confident and had to believe in themselves and trust their knowledge to face obstacles

Beating the Odds: When these women get to work on NASA’s most important project no one believed that black women could be in the same position as white men

Dealing with Injustice: Due to racism present at that time these women dealt with injustice at different levels

Examines Power Structures: Around 190 white men had a lot more privileges than black women and this movie displays different power structures

History of Injustice and History of Science: Both injustice and history of scientific events are shown in this movie

Recognizing One’s Privilege: This movie also can teach white people to recognize privileges

Universality: This movie promotes universality because scientific advances are universal

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Racism: In this movie we can see some racist actions that were common back in 1960’s decade