I saw the film Hidden Figures over the weekend and I enjoyed it. The film that tells the story of three black women who worked for NASA in the early 1960s is uplifting and just the kind of movie we need today during these trying political times. Aside from the great performances by Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monae, the movie does a great job of showing the subtle and not-so-subtle ways people of color were and still are being deterred or simply stopped from getting ahead. On this Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend (or Great Americans Day as folks in Biloxi are calling it--insert eye roll here), it's nice to see a movie that highlights the achievements of black Americans who far too often are treated as if we contribute nothing to society.
In other news, I was sad to hear Ringling Brothers is shutting their circus down. I believe the one and only time I went to the circus was in the 1970s when I was a child. It was just the sort of thing all kids did. But times have changed and kids today aren't interested in seeing clowns and animals under the big top. Plus, if you add in the animal activists who fought to get elephants removed from the shows, you've got a recipe for disaster. So RIP Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
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