Not much upsets Chef Benjamin “B.J.” Dennis, but any mention of black-eyed peas strikes a particular nerve. Back home, Dennis has access to more than 20 varieties of field peas, including several rare ...

CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) - A unique culture maintained by African slave descendants along the U.S. southeastern Atlantic coast will be featured with a float in the presidential inaugural ...

You won’t find this type of preservation work in a museum or cultural center. Instead, Akua Page and Chris Cato use viral videos and social media to preserve Gullah/Geechee culture via Geechee ...

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 ...

Who are the Black (African) Seminoles descendants of? Enslavers intentionally separated captured Africans from the same village or region to reduce the likelihood of rebellion. Lowcountry enslavers ...

(WSAV) – On about three acres of land, in the rural town of Riceboro, Ga., sits a gathering place called Geechee Kunda. “We are a museum. We’re a cultural center. We’re a research center. We’re an art ...

AUGUSTINE, Fla. — Among the more than 100 Sea Islands that stretch from Georgetown County, S.C., to Amelia Island, Fla., and about 30 miles inland, is the home of the Gullah Geechee people. Sign up ...

DARIEN, Ga. (AP) - Griffin Lotson, a seventh-generation Gullah-Geechee, grew up on the old spirituals that sprang from the suffering and hope of African Americans. As a child, he listened to his ...

Ophelia Grant of Georgia Gullah/Geechee Shouters of McIntosh County, Ga. A delegation of Gullah/Geechee descendants from South Carolina traveled to Washington to tour the White House and participate ...

DARIEN — The Sapelo Island ferry began its slow passage across the Doboy Sound more than two hours late Tuesday night, just before dusk. The mood of those onboard reflected the darkening skies: They’d ...

Did you ever walk through the woods and out of curiosity pull back the bark of an old fallen tree? You may have thought you knew everything you wanted to know about the crusty, forgotten bark, but ...