The Spirit We Move With explores the legacy of Mitchelville on Hilton Head Island and its Gullah Geechee community
In 1862, while the American civil war spread across the country, formerly enslaved pe…
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A Black Georgia community uprooted in 1942 still fights to go home ⊖
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US descendants of Harris Neck’s Gullah Geechee families seek the return of ancestral land seized for a wartime airfield
A once thriving Black community along the Georgia coast called Harris Neck is no…
11 months ago
Georgia university receives $500,000 grant to preserve Gullah Geechee heritage ○
GSU will establish the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land Project to research and protect the community and its culture
A new $500,000 Mellon grant will allow Georgia State University to develop archival, his…
Georgia State University receives $500,000 grant to preserve Gullah Geechee heritage ○
GSU will establish the Gullah Geechee Sacred Land Project to research and protect the community and its culture
A new $500,000 Mellon grant will allow Georgia State University to develop archival, his…
12 months ago
‘We live in both worlds’: how teachers of Gullah Geechee herbal medicine are cultivating tradition ○
Classes on herbalism connect new generations eager to explore their roots with elders in the South Carolina community
With their eyes downcast in reflection, dozens of people dressed in white crossed …
13 months ago
The little-known Gullah Geechee politician who pushed for the 14th amendment ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
As Trump tries to revoke birthright citizenship, a civic group looks to the Black lawmaker who helped establish it
After Donald Trump issued an executive order to limit birthright citizenship last mon…
14 months ago
How an outsider captured the intimacy of Gullah Geechee life in 13 portraits ○
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe’s exhibit at the Whitney Museum depicts the rich culture of Daufuskie Island
In Boiling Crab, Daufuskie Island, South Carolina, a photograph by Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe, a lanky…
15 months ago
‘Let’s all go to Gullah Gullah Island!’: the groundbreaking TV show that affirmed Black kids ○
The Nick Jr series encouraged cultural preservation of the Gullah Geechee, descendants of formerly enslaved people in South Carolina
Thirty years ago, Ron and Natalie Daise and their children, Sara an…
‘I didn’t realize the role rice played’: the ingenious crop cultivation of the Gullah Geechee people ○
Researchers in North Carolina used underwater sonar to map a system created by enslaved people centuries ago
As a former deputy state underwater archaeologist, Mark Wilde-Ramsing can’t help but look d…
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