If you ever need to feel really good about Atlanta, I recommend standing on the block where the Georgian Terrace hotel is on Peachtree Street, during sunset, and facing south. It’s a nice vista.
Scenes from a walk on the Eastside Beltline today. I love these overcast autumn days. Though the sunny ones are great too. Mostly I’m glad we’re getting actual autumn weather.
In September 2023, students at HBCUs participated in a hackathon at the National HBCU Week Conference, where they used NASA’s technologies to create solutions to problems that affect Black communities. The winning team, Team Airtek, proposed a nano-sensor array for medical diagnoses that would give students on HBCU campuses a non-invasive, non-intensive way to test themselves for precursors for diseases and illnesses like diabetes and COVID.
No matter what you’re studying, you can join the MITTIC competition and come up with new and innovative tech to help your community and the world.
MITTIC could be the beginning of your career pathway: Teams can go on exclusive NASA tours and network with industry experts. Show off your entrepreneurial skills and your team could earn money—and bragging rights.
Design collections at NMAAHC encompass graphic design, furniture design, fashion design, and architectural design, among other fields. The impact of African Americans in design is reflected in American material culture and the built environment we experience today.
My baby Revision Path is a part of the collection – the first podcast to be in the Smithsonian’s archives. (There’s a pretty dope bio of me too.)
Doors and windows sitting against the sidewalk in Atlanta, without giant boxes of parking decks looming overhead. This is the good stuff.
No shade intended to the many small businesses that work hard to make great things happen in less ideal environments. I’m just hoping for more of these pedestrian-oriented, ideal environments in the future, and having them be accessible to all.
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