Quote Originally Posted by upthemaggies View Post
In this day and age science and technology is largely taken for granted and I don't think people generally care about the people involved regardless of skin colour.
Music and sport dominates the culture in today's world, and why not? Jazz was the classical music of the 20th century, Miles Davis long recognised as the greatest in that field, Jimi Hendrix as the greatest rock guitarist. Muhammed Ali widely touted as the greatest sportsman of all time, Pele the greatest footballer.
Everyone’s heard of Muhammad Ali and Pele, but doesn’t the other thread demonstrate that some people are ignorant about black scientists and innovators? And doesn’t such ignorance inform prejudice?

I think this is a great idea for a thread and I do want to watch Hidden Figures.