Motherland

1968. Washington, D.C. is the volatile epicenter of the Cold War, civil rights, and anti-war movement. The Nation's Capital buzzes with the electric energy of a powder keg about to explode. But Maryanne Freeman, a young, Black astrophysicist working at NASA, could care less about what is happening on Earth. All she wants to do is listen to the cosmos, immersing herself in the mysteries of outer space. However, her brilliance is overshadowed by racial prejudice and gender bias, and her talen...