Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Kamili Anderson moved to North Carolina in 2009, she was surprised to hear people talking about Gullah Geechee heritage. But ...

The Gullah Geechee community has deep roots in Jacksonville. Beyond the streets and shorelines lives a story of survival, ...

A Savannah business owner is carrying on her family’s tradition of herbal medicine through Geechee Girl Apothecary, a shop ...

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 ...

The Spirit We Move With explores the legacy of Mitchelville on Hilton Head Island and its Gullah Geechee community ...

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 ...

Neesha Powell-Ingabire is the director of popular education at the Southern media collective Press On and the author of the new book, Come by Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast.

In a win for the Gullah Geechee people on St Helena Island in South Carolina, access to a long-used cemetery has been restored ...

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 work the cotton and rice ...

On a recent trip to Charleston, South Carolina, I met Benjamin “BJ” Dennis at the James Island Sunday Brunch Farmers Market. We pause in front of the Simmons Farm stand to shake sand out of my shoes — ...

Julia Scott is disappointed. Despite a judge granting her and other Gullah Geechee residents in St. Helena Island, South Carolina, access to the centuries-old Big House Cemetery, they must give the ...