Hidden Figures: You will get to laugh with black women, hope for black women, and cheer for black women.
I’m not much of a crier, but I was tearing up within the first 30 seconds of Hidden Figures. I had approached the theater with some trepidation. I’m so used to being disappointed by films, especially films that try to put an inspirational bent on our country’s dark and ugly racial history. But at the very beginning of Hidden Figures, I was looking at a little black girl—a beautiful and precocious little dark-skinned girl. And as her black mother and black father and entire black community came together to send this talented little girl to school, I started crying.