The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission hosted its second annual Gullah Convening dedicated to celebrating, ...
Ranky Tanky is a song, a band, an admonition and a way of life — all of them intertwined and growing out of the Gullah Geechee culture of coastal South Carolina, Georgia and their sea islands. It was ...
A two-time Grammy Award-winning Charleston band has helped put Gullah music on the international map, but it's been a part of South Carolina's coastal culture for centuries now, tracing back to ...
“Voices of Gullah” members (from left), Joe Murray, Minnie “Gracie” Gadson, Rosa Murray and Charles “Jojo” Brown, sing Gullah spirituals on July 19 at the Brick Baptist Church in St. Helena Island.
The show highlights Gullah contributions during the American Revolution, including rice farming and indigo dying. Minnie “Gracie” Gadson claps her hands and stomps her feet against the floorboards, ...
If you make your way to Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens in Mount Pleasant, you can find a unique presentation titled “Exploring the Gullah Culture.” In it, the Gullah Geechee people demonstrate the ...
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 ...
Simone Shanae’s grandmother was gifted fabric from Africa over 30 years ago from a merchant seaman family friend. The fabric depicts a map of Africa with different shades of green, brown, blue and ...
The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor stretches from Florida to North Carolina and aims to preserve the culture of descendants of enslaved Africans. Gullah Geechee people are known for their ...