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Griffin launched her company, Anissa Wakefield Wines in 2019, becoming the first black woman winemaker in Alabama.

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NASA engineer and mathematician Mary W. Jackson is finally getting her just due. On Wednesday (Jun 24) NASA announced plans to rename their headquarters located in Washington DC after the first Black female aerospace engineer Mary W. Jackson. Jackson, who was the agency's first American American female engineer in 1958, opened up opportunities for countless women of color in STEM who followed in her footsteps.

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NASA renamed the street in front of its headquarters “Hidden Figures Way” to honor the Black women who pushed space exploration forward.

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West Virginia State University will create a bronze statue and scholarship fund in honor of NASA’s Katherine Johnson.

“Hidden Figures” taught many about the black women who were engineers

In the new film "Hidden Figures" Taraji P. Henson will play NASA scientist and expert mathematician Katherine Johnson.