Gina Capers-Willis calls herself a Geechee Girl. Her roots come from Daufuskie Island, South Carolina and the Gullah islands off the Georgia coast. But she grew up in Savannah at a time when she says ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s impossible to miss the bright mural of a beautiful Black woman who appears to be inviting people into Ma Daisy’s Restaurant.

Since 2023, an effort to raise property taxes and displace Black Gullah-Geechee residents has threatened the community's deep ...

If you make your way to Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens in Mount Pleasant, you can find a unique presentation titled “Exploring the Gullah Culture.” In it, the Gullah Geechee people demonstrate the ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) – Their dinner had just arrived as the two college professors watched their guests, a group of singers from the Georgia coast, unexpectedly turn saying grace into an outburst of ...

A two-time Grammy Award-winning Charleston band has helped put Gullah music on the international map, but it's been a part of South Carolina's coastal culture for centuries now, tracing back to ...

If a slave died while cutting rice stalks in the wet paddy fields on Sapelo Island, Georgia, those laboring with him were not permitted to attend to the body. The buzzards arrived first. But at night, ...

Voters in one Georgia county have overwhelmingly supported a measure intending to protect a historic Black community from ...

Marina Cantlon was born and raised in Italy, but when she moved to the Lowcountry in 1997, she found home. She fell in love with the region and was especially fascinated by the Gullah culture. She had ...

ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. — Minnie “Gracie” Gadson claps her hands and stomps her feet against the floorboards, lifting her voice in a song passed down from her enslaved ancestors who were forced to ...