CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Whether you’re a “comeya” or a “beenya,” if you were a kid in the 90s, you probably know a thing or two about Gullah Geechee culture – and it is likely thanks to people like ...
Since 2023, an effort to raise property taxes and displace Black Gullah-Geechee residents has threatened the community's deep ...
Voters in one Georgia county have overwhelmingly supported a measure intending to protect a historic Black community from ...
Voters in McIntosh County, which is predominantly white, voted 85% in favor of the referendum to deny the construction of ...
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; she ...
Tuesday, McIntosh County voters will cast ballots in a special election that could reshape the future of Hog Hammock on ...
Artist and Gullah Geechee descendant Mya Timmons draws what was erased, adding her own sense of style, too.
ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. — 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 to ...
Supporters of the referendum argued that letting wealthy outsiders build large vacation homes could raise property taxes.
Nick Spitzer: The Gullah Geechee Shouters, how about that? Beautiful. We're going to talk just a little bit for a moment. In radio, we call this chin music, and I'm going to go with age before beauty, ...
JAMES ISLAND, S.C. (WCBD) – Local advocates are expected to host a community meeting concerning Gullah Geechee burial sites this weekend. Organizers will discuss the Gullah Geechee settlement ...
It is an advance to human rights that the story of the Gullah-Geechee people of South Carolina is today being told more often ...