NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson’s Great-Granddaughter Shares Inspiring Legacy
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Күн бұрынTODAY’s Sheinelle Jones sits down with Nakia Boykin, the great-granddaughter of legendary NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson. Boykin shares how Johnson inspired her academically and the lasting legacy she left behind for generations. “I don't know if I'm going to work at NASA or anything like she did, but math definitely will always be with me as I get older,” she says.
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@jeffhamer7537 2 жыл бұрын
Why didnt we learn about Katherine johnson in school? Crazy to me this women isnt talked about more!!!!
@Wareaglegirl9960 Жыл бұрын
That’s what I was thinking. All 3 of those women were amazing
@andylucas6962 Жыл бұрын
because her accomplishments have been exaggerated, on the grand scale of things she was just a small cog in gigantic wheel, if truth be told
@FlyingRedTailHawk Жыл бұрын
I agree, I didn't learn about this in school as well.
@FlyingRedTailHawk Жыл бұрын
This would have been an interesting topic to learn about in school. This would have a great history lesson in school. In school learning about the "Hidden Figures" women would have been fun and interesting for everyone.
@mystic7579 Жыл бұрын
Why you asked such questions when you already know the answers!!! You don’t realize that she is a black woman!!!! I need say no more!!
@EmyDays07 11 ай бұрын
Her great grandmother opened the path her ❤
@LilliLamour Ай бұрын
And other women 😊
@greywolf0167 Жыл бұрын
i AM A WHITE 58 YEAR OLD MAN...WHY DIDN'T WE DIDN'T LEARN ABOUT THIS AMAZING LADY IN SCHOOL HERE IN CANADA AS WELL?
@andylucas6962 Жыл бұрын
because her accomplishments have been exaggerated, on the grand scale of things she was just a small cog in gigantic wheel if truth be told
@freddsims648 Жыл бұрын
There are no borders to racism. Controlling your knowledge of history controls your thoughts and actions, which dictates your present and helps to mold a certain desired future.
@yourfinalhiringagency3890 Жыл бұрын
It’s because she had red hair, blue eyes and white skin. She was not a majority black. There’s in color pics of her youth.
@kjstemacademy 2 жыл бұрын
Ms. Johnson's legacy continues to inspire!
@emilyappiah1505 2 жыл бұрын
It's in her DNA. Go Girl 👧 👏 💪. It's in Your GENES
@maxalvarez7920 2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful story. Loved this.
@Wareaglegirl9960 Жыл бұрын
I wish I would have learned about all 3 of these amazing women
@FlyingRedTailHawk Жыл бұрын
I agree
@bmuhamad 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing story & amazing women. Just do our best, period.
@SterlingSMtr Жыл бұрын
Very inspirational! ♡
@gayemarianesfox2405 2 жыл бұрын
Love this! Such positivity!
@trebonejones410 8 ай бұрын
Excellent
@santyago4 8 ай бұрын
Great reporting.
@benjohnson1685 Жыл бұрын
You go girl
@Shasha10832 Жыл бұрын
❤
@briantneary2248 5 ай бұрын
Your grandmother was an American hero💚
@RaymondHng 2 жыл бұрын
I learned algebra in 9th grade. She's starting early.
@yvonneplant9434 Жыл бұрын
You were supposed to learn algebra in 7th grade.
@quann06 8 ай бұрын
💪🏽
@daniellesjerven6593 Жыл бұрын
I love 💕 Hidden Figures. It’s an amazing movie 🍿
@yourfinalhiringagency3890 Жыл бұрын
I did too, but am now apparently learning it wasn’t as told. Was not expecting her to have red hair blue eyes and white skin but somehow at 10% she’s black? The law at the time even in the south was 1/5th makes you black, ms Johnson was considered white at the time... only now do we consider her black. Wow right ? And there was no team of other blacks, just women counters. 2:16 these history movies always trick me and then I’m let down when I find the truth
@janicewashington4318 2 жыл бұрын
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@blumberg1982 2 ай бұрын
Can she tutor me?! lol!
@ar-1571 Жыл бұрын
You mean linear middle school?
@mariazermeno9688 2 ай бұрын
Porque lo están pasando tan rápido!acaso se que man los frijoles en la lumbre
@oriraykai3610 Жыл бұрын
I started Algebra in 7th grade. Don't know what you school YOU went to interviewer.
@johnd5398 Жыл бұрын
The one that led to her being a half-assed journalist who leans on affirmative action to get anywhere in life.
@lynnewilliams3241 Жыл бұрын
Not all schools do so let's not be semi clever.
@ronaldnines3543 Жыл бұрын
She looked white
@spiceoflife1242 Жыл бұрын
SHE WAS A BLACK WOMAN! We come in ALLLLLL SHADES!!!
@johnd5398 Жыл бұрын
@@spiceoflife1242 but only brainless morons type in all caps - regardless of color. She was exceptionally light skinned.
@spiceoflife1242 Жыл бұрын
@@johnd5398 only foolish idiots they typing in Caps is a real thing! Keyboard Caveman!!!
@John-ru4gz Жыл бұрын
he was 80% European and 20% African.
@lauramorgan2928 Жыл бұрын
@@John-ru4gz liar!
@voraciousreader3341 Жыл бұрын
Look at all those men sitting there trying to “celebrate” women. I’ll wait til there’s an equal number before watching the today show again. Not only that, but psychologists have known for a very long time that it’s Nature _AND_ Nurture which makes any kind of person. There is never an instance where it’s purely one or the other.
@MrLjpadk11 Жыл бұрын
I'll bet, I'll almost guarantee it, that Ms. Johnson in her illustrious career, did not constantly talk about her "blackness", her racial identity. She forged ahead knowing she was good at her work, took pride in her accomplishments, and did not lodge constant complaints about black this, and black that. THIS is the kind if person more blacks and woke whites should emulate, not the identity race hucksters of today.
@freddsims648 Жыл бұрын
If you saw the movie, but especially read the book (sorry, no pics in it), then you would understand that her 'blackness" and racial identity were very evident and constantly targeted. Why talk about it when everything and everyone around you made it a handicap that she had to overcome unlike her coworkers and their "whiteness". The problem is that if she had been more vocal, she would have lost her job or worse. The best that she could do at that time is what she did and that is be better than all those around her, which was damninig to them. Because that flew in the face of all that they knew about not just blacks, but women, also. And if she complained, who was she going to complain to? The same power structure that kept her and her people in their place.
@yvonneplant9434 Жыл бұрын
People of her generation didn't really talk about it. What they tried to do was live as best they could within the restrictions which were absolutely there. "Talking" about it could get you killed as what happened to Medger Evers and MLK Jr.
@yvonneplant9434 Жыл бұрын
Poc today don't want to appease white trash hucksters like the Marge Taylor Greens. The gloves are off.
@mooshuguy5141 8 ай бұрын
Too bad this great story had to be told with a race narrative
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