Taraji P. Henson

Actress Taraji P. Henson, NBA star Chris Paul, and United Airlines president Brett Hart are among the 18 members of the President's board of advisers on HBCUs.

It’s called “Peace of Mind With Taraji.”

Octavia Spencer, who won an Oscar for her performance in The Help, will star opposite Taraji P. Henson in Hidden Figures, a period race drama being directed  ...

Actress and singer Taraji P. Henson has been chosen to play one of the three female mathematicians who helped launch the first American astronaut into space. The upcoming film, entitled Hidden Figures, will be produced by Fox 2000 and is based on a book of the same title written by Margot Lee Shetterly called Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race. Publisher HarperCollins will release the book in September. Henson, 45, was chosen to play the role of Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who, with the help of her colleagues Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson, paved the way for the United States to send astronaut John Glenn into orbit, making him the first American to do so.