Gullah/Geechee represents a small population of African Americans living in the coastal low country of South Carolina, Georgia and Northeastern Florida. Gullah/Geechee represents not only a people, ...
The traditions and culture of West Africans brought to America through the Atlantic slave trade have been preserved for generations through the Gullah and Geechee people. Today, this community of ...
ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. | More than a quarter century after the laborious work began, the New Testament has finally been translated into Gullah, the creole language spoken by slaves and their ...
This week on Awareness, Billie Jean Shaw spoke to Gullah Geechee educator Dr. Jessica Berry. A native of the low country, Dr. Berry has created a platform to dispel the myths about the Gullah Geechee ...
ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. – More than a quarter century after the laborious work began, the New Testament has finally been translated into Gullah, the creole language spoken by slaves and their ...
The New Testament has recently been translated into Gullah, a language of slaves and their descendants that's still spoken by a few people along the southeast coast of the United States. Steve Inskeep ...
The distinct Gullah-Geechee people, located near the coast of South Carolina, have survived slavery, the Civil War and Jim Crow. But in recent decades, the historic Black community has been threatened ...
It looked, at first, like just another fun outdoor festival. An R&B band was rocking onstage; a few visitors were chowing down on burgers and fries. And when the Manhattans, the featured group, ...
Last week, I highlighted many African-derived words in the Gullah dialect that Dr. Lorenzo Turner identified in his book. Several of my Nigerian readers were intrigued by the retention of Fulfulde ...
ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. — The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. No matter how often he read Psalm 23, Emory Campbell never could understand that line. “I shall not want: What does that mean?” ...