McIntosh County commissioners reversed course after the referendum. They now side with Gullah Geechee residents who want to ...

Since 2023, an effort to raise property taxes and displace Black Gullah-Geechee residents has threatened the community's deep history.

Voters in one Georgia county have overwhelmingly supported a measure intending to protect a historic Black community from ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission hosted its second annual Gullah Convening dedicated to celebrating, preserving, and investing in the living culture ...

Voters in Georgia on Tuesday rejected an ordinance to build larger homes on Sapelo Island in a win for the Gullah-Geechee ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The Gullah Geechee Family Foundation will hold its 8 th annual Gullah Kwanzaa Celebration on Tuesday ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The Gullah Geechee Family Foundation will hold its 8 th annual Gullah Kwanzaa Celebration on Tuesday afternoon. Organizers say festivities will include an African drum class, ...

JAMES ISLAND — Mother Africa sits atop a table near the entryway to McLeod Plantation. The Black doll with scraps of colorful fabric flowing into a billowy skirt is a symbol that Virginia “Genya” ...

DARIEN, Ga. — Voters in McIntosh County will have a referendum this month to decide whether to repeal an ordinance that allows houses to more than double in size on Sapelo Island. That ordinance ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – In the south, welcoming in the new year means more than watching the ball drop at midnight on New Year’s Eve, setting off fireworks, or enjoying a champagne toast – it’s ...

Sallie Ann Robinson defies the old saw that “you can’t go home again.” In fact, Daufuskie Island, S.C., where Robinson was born in 1958 with the help of a midwife in the house that her ...

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