I’m calling this quest buck$hot$ to ‘flip the script’ by using a term of ridicule to promote value. Continue reading
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Little Stove, Big Potential?
DIY Cinder Block Rocket Stove http://zite.to/1EsQicG Could this stove be a solution to economic challenges in the developing world or are there assumptions we make about exporting this design that fail to engage the real costs of poverty? Continue reading
The Mis-Digitization of the Negro
The lack of an authentic technological education is developing a false consciousness among black folk (and others). Technology is good for a lot of things but it is not a cure-all to improve relationships, address inequality, and dismantle institutional barriers to progress. In the last 10 years, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields have … Continue reading
Giving It All Away – An Interview with Ted Oswald
Neil deGrasse Tyson On Education Flaws
Your education changes the wiring in your brain in ways you don’t know. You can’t always see the direction connection between A and B but the changes in your thinking progress takes you there. Continue reading
Feeding the World With Big Data
Feeding the World With Big Data. Continue reading
Welcome to D.R.A.W.Bridge
This is a team of students, scholars, entrepreneurs, and volunteers who are building a digital library and genealogical/family history database for African Americans (Gullah-Geechee) in coastal Georgia and their “distant relatives” in Sierra Leone. The purpose of this project, sponsored by the Carlton-Carew Ep Foundation, is to exchange resources and ideas, initiating a dialogue to … Continue reading
Pan-Africanism 2.0
What does Pan-Africanism mean today? It is as difficult for people today to provide a clear definition of what Pan-Africanism is as it was in 1968 when Immanuel Geiss published the Pan-African Movement. In the first comprehensive study of the concept, Geiss settled on three major themes that characterized historical strands of the movement: 1) … Continue reading
The D.R.A.W.Bridge Project 