Discover how Gullah Gullah Island introduced children to the rich traditions of Gullah Geechee culture.

Seven people died after a ferry gangway collapsed Saturday in Georgia, according to state officials. Authorities were working Sunday to determine the cause. The gangway at the island’s Marsh Landing ...

For generations, the Gullah-Geechee people have fought to stop gentrification from taking over their small and historic land. Now, a community vote has ended a years-long effort trying to force ...

†††Gullah is a language developed here in the Lowcountry and spoken from Wilmington, North Carolina to Jacksonville † Beach and along the coast, extending 30 miles inland. Shinault-Smalls said Gullah ...

A two-time Grammy Award-winning Charleston band has helped put Gullah music on the international map, but it's been a part of South Carolina's coastal culture for centuries now, tracing back to ...

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 ...

Extracted from: Historical methods (Washington, DC) 25 (2) spring 1993, pages 53-67. Study of the linguistic, cultural and biological factors which tie the Sea Island people of South Carolina and ...

Gullah Geechee people are descendants of Africans who were enslaved in coastal areas of the southeastern United States. They held onto traditions from Africa and mixed them with new ones, forming ...

About 700 visitors were in attendance at Sapelo Island, about 60 miles south of Savannah, before the collapse which tragically killed seven people and left three in critical condition. According to ...

ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. -- More than a quarter-century after the laborious work began, the New Testament has been translated into Gullah, the creole language spoken by slaves and their descendants for ...

Since 2023, an effort to raise property taxes and displace Black Gullah-Geechee residents has threatened the community’s deep history. For generations, the Gullah-Geechee people have fought to stop ...