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Before Hidden Figures won for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture at the Screen Actors Guild awards Sunday night, Taraji P. Henson summed it up perfectly: “This movie, I believe, is a movement … [it’s] is bigger than all of us,” the film’s star said on the red carpet. She wasn’t kidding: The true story-about three brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit-is inspiring real young women to consider careers in science and technology.