There were at one point 12 Gullah communities on Sapelo Island, with a half-dozen left after World War II. Now, only one ...
ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Minnie “Gracie” Gadson claps her hands and stomps her feet against the floorboards, lifting her voice in a song passed down from her enslaved ancestors who were forced ...
There are already plans to expand the app's initial roster of seven locations around historic Hilton Head Island. According to WSAV, on Oct. 2, Hilton Head leaders revealed the website and a mobile ...
This article was first published by The Pulitzer Center. HILTON HEAD ISLAND — As the tour bus hisses to a stop, Melvin Campbell rises, his gaze fixed on a patch of land tucked between a Whole Foods ...
Yolanda Bryant, a fourth-generation Gullah native, is fighting to preserve Gullah Geechee culture on Daufuskie Island as environmental concerns rise and education dwindles. Courtesy of Yolanda Bryant ...
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – The Supreme Court of Georgia ruled in favor of the Gullah Geechee community on Sapelo Island, Tuesday morning. This came after a referendum was filed by Gullah Geechee citizens ...
Editor’s note: Gullah people are descendants of enslaved Africans brought to plantations along the lower Atlantic Coast who have long shaped the cultural and spiritual tides of South Carolina. This is ...