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, ...

Who remembers the 1990s PBS children’s show Gullah Gullah Island? For many of us, watching or hearing about the show was our first exposure to Gullah, the culture native to the Georgia and Carolina ...

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 ...

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 ...

The most obvious aspect of Gullah culture to outsiders in the early 20th century was the language. Linguistic researchers spent years studying the distinctive rhythm, words and grammar that developed ...

SAVANNAH, GA. - Cornelia Bailey hadn’t heard her great-great-uncle Shadrack Hall’s Gullah stories in 50 years. Growing up on Sapelo Island, Ms. Bailey listened to Mr. Hall’s tales and her ...

Doing the Ring Shout in Georgia, ca. 1930s Members of the Gullah community express their spirituality through the “ring shout” during a service at a local “praise house.” Courtesy of Lorenzo Dow ...

Cultural preservationist Victoria Smalls lectured about the rich cultural tapestry of the Gullah Geechee people, and the unique heritage, customs and language they’ve passed down through generations, ...

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 ...