The success of 'Hidden Figures' proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories about transcendent human experiences.

A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and are as complex and interesting and variable as any other group of people. We don't often capture that or write about it.

I was surprised how little I knew about the significant contributions to aviation that had happened right there in Hampton, Virginia.

You need to decide that you're going to use a story to enlighten and inspire people in the modern day.

As much as I think it is necessary and desirable for white people to have an expanded view of the black American experience, it's probably even more important for black people to have that expanded view.

During World War II, hundreds of thousands of people actually - and among them many African-American - migrated to the Hampton Roads area because of the job boom that was happening. It was a place where you could get stable war jobs.