The partial collapse of a ferry dock that left seven people dead during an annual cultural festival has left a historic Black ...
South Carolina will soon erect its first individual statute of a Black person, Robert Smalls, on its Statehouse lawn in its ...
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 ...
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 ...
He saw — and heard — the beauty of the Gullah culture that infused the South Carolina Lowcountry of the 20th century. He appreciated the character of families then not far removed from slavery.
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 ...
He saw — and heard — the beauty of the Gullah culture that infused the South Carolina Lowcountry of the 20th century. He appreciated the character of families then not far removed from slavery.