Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Kamili Anderson moved to North Carolina in 2009, she was surprised to hear people talking about Gullah Geechee heritage. But ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Whenever Nikki Williams’ feet touch the soil on Sapelo Island, Georgia, memories of her youth flood back vividly. Every fall, her ...

Neesha Powell-Ingabire is the director of popular education at the Southern media collective Press On and the author of the new book, Come by Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast.

Gullah Geechee people are descendants of Africans who were enslaved in coastal areas of the southeastern United States. They held onto traditions from Africa and mixed them with new ones, forming ...