The partial collapse of a ferry dock that left seven people dead during an annual cultural festival has left a historic Black ...

At Sunday’s news conference, state Rep. Al Williams (D) said he and others in the Gullah Geechee community throughout the United States were “mourning along with our many, many friends.” ...

The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of African Americans who were enslaved on plantations along the lower Atlantic coasts. Many came from West Africa's rice-growing regions. Their isolation ...

In the midst of a celebration of the island’s small Gullah-Geechee community of Black slave descendants, a gangway collapsed on the visitor ferry dock shortly before 4 p.m. Saturday and plunged ...

Investigators have begun looking for reasons behind the failure at a ferry dock on Sapelo Island, the site of a festival celebrating the heritage of descendants of enslaved people. By Corina Knoll ...

As visitors were leaving Sepalo island's annual Cultural Day, which celebrates the Gullah Geechee community's heritage, a ferry dock on Sapelo Island collapsed on Saturday afternoon. The collapse ...

An estimated 700 people were on Sapelo Island, about 72 miles south of Savannah, to celebrate the Gullah Geechee history and its unique blend of African culture and American life when the collapse ...

The incident occurred during a festival celebrating the island's Gullah-Geechee community. Hundreds of people were gathered to celebrate the Gullah-Geechee community on Georgia's Sapelo Island on ...

“What should have been a joyous celebration of Gullah-Geechee culture and history instead turned into tragedy and devastation,” President Joe Biden said Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at ...

The accident occurred around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, during a vibrant Cultural Day event celebrating the unique heritage of the Gullah-Geechee community, which consists of the descendants of ...