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The real story behind Hidden Figures: NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson - whose career inspired the award-winning movie - lays bare her struggles with racism and sexism in eye-opening posthumous memoir
Johnson s posthumous memoir, My Remarkable Journey, was co-written by Joylette Hylick and Katherine Moore, two of her three daughters
In the book, she recounted how she went from a child prodigy in West Virginia to a NASA employee, detailing the struggles and fears she faced as a black woman
Johnson is remembered as a trailblazer who helped America dominate aeronautics, space research, and computer technology in NASA s early years
Saxophonist Gene Barge helped shape the sound of Chicago R&B
He’s done his most influential work as a sideman or producer, but he’s just as important as any of the genre’s marquee stars.
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Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place.
Gene Barge is unusual among Secret History subjects in that the general public especially outside Chicago might recognize him as a movie actor before they d remember his music. Barge turned to music full-time relatively late in life, and not till a couple years after he d had his biggest hits in the late 50s and early 60s. Because he was often billed on records as Daddy G, it s not immediately obvious that the actor is the same person, but now is as good a time as any to connect the dots about this Renaissance man.
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