When Kamili Anderson moved to North Carolina in 2009, she was surprised to hear people talking about Gullah Geechee heritage. But her surprise wasn’t from a lack of familiarity with the culture ...

Cultural preservationist Victoria Smalls lectured about the unique heritage, customs, and language of the Gullah Geechee ...

The collapse happened on Sapelo Island, about 40 miles south of Savannah, during an annual cultural celebration of the Gullah ...

The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of formerly enslaved West Africans who were brought to the coastal regions of North and South Carolina, Georgia, and Northern Florida due to their ...

In 1863, abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a raid that liberated nearly 760 enslaved people working on rice plantations ...

From traditional Gullah food, a vibrant arts and crafts market, live storytelling, vendors and music, the Gullah Festival is ...

Living on a small, designated portion of Sapelo Island, one of Georgia's 15 coastal islands located about 70 miles south of Savannah, the Gullah-Geechee people are federally recognized as a distinct ...

With continued gentrification and erasure across all Gullah Geechee communities, descendants are pushing back even harder to protect their home. “The people are Geechee people because we were ...

About an acre in size and once part of a cotton plantation, the 165-year-old Big House Cemetery is located between Seaside Road and the Harbor River on St. Helena Island. Courtesy photo As ...

Decoration Day is an award-winning performance highlighting the role that formerly enslaved Gullah Geechee people played in decorating the graves of fallen soldiers. Executive Producer and Director ...

Kardea Brown, the celebrated Lowcountry chef and star of the Food Network's "Delicious Miss Brown," opened her first ...