huis toe      ( Home) The construction of homes in Africa are currently becoming more and more modernized. While in the past tribes would pull together poles to build the huts, there are other  methods, such as the modai cast system, where mud, and straw are cast into bricks and fired.

A Day in African American History

Monday, May 5, 1937

1937: Colin Powell was born in New York City. He received a bachelor's degree from City College of New York and a MBA from George Washington University. In 1958, he entered the U.S. Army, as a 2nd LT.   more .....

Did You Know!!

An African American invented the Gas Mask!

MORGAN, GARRETT
Garrett Augustus Morgan (March 4, 1877 - August 27, 1963), was an African-American inventor and businessman. Morgan used his gas mask (patent No. 1,090,936, 1914) to rescue miners who were trapped underground in a noxious mine. 

more on the gas mask ......