CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — Glass bottles placed on bare tree branches around the Lowcountry have been tended to for hundreds of years, symbolizing protection and rooted in superstition in the ...

I started 2023 off with a trip exploring the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. Excitement was an understatement when I first learned about the trip. I'd known of the Gullah people from ...

A new book from leading scholars and historians pushes back against the narrative that Gullah communities were insulated from the mainland US ...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, Sc. (WTOC) - Hilton Head government has started a nonprofit focused on preserving historic Gullah Geechee neighborhoods. Now, the town is looking for an executive director to lead ...

The Sapelo Island red pea is more than a crop—it’s a lifeline.

The Gullah Geechee people make up one of the oldest and most extraordinary communities in the United States. But if you’ve never heard of them, it might be because their history is often sifted out of ...

For generations, the Gullah-Geechee people have fought to stop gentrification from taking over their small and historic land. Now, a community vote has ended a years-long effort trying to force ...

Sapelo Island, sitting off the coast of Georgia, has been home to one of America's last intact Gullah Geechee communities. The Gullah Geechee is a community of descendants of enslaved people who ...

This is an opinion commentary by arts and culture columnist Maxine L. Bryant. Much of Gullah Geechee culture is connected to the waterways and the foodways. The waterways (ocean waters surrounding the ...

This week, Etsy announced a new installment of its Uplift Makers Program, an initiative that “serves to provide financial opportunities to historic artisan communities that often face economic ...