Sea Island Cotton
July 2, 2025
By Tom Bouthillet For 30,000 years, humans wore linen made from flax. Then, in the
The Art of Building a Bateau
June 23, 2025
By Luana M. Graves Sellars Time honored traditions and skills are to be treasured. The
“We weren’t just brought here. We were chosen — then chained.”
June 20, 2025
“Over 60% from the Rice Coast: What the Numbers Reveal About Who We Are” By Amadu
The Crying River
June 20, 2025
The Crying River is an excerpt from the book of poems, One Voice of a People, by Stephen Q. Gray
Timeline of Enslaved African Imports into North American Colonial Ports
June 20, 2025
Data Courtesy of Amadu Massally, Author of The Gullah Geechee Saga: Through African Eyes The
After Africa | Part One – Food
September 10, 2024
The Food So, it’s been a few weeks since I returned from Africa, and of
Uncovering Our Stories – Part 2
September 4, 2024
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Finding Your Roots – Part 1
September 4, 2024
Want to find your roots? Listen in on why it’s a valuable and important journey to start.
On Safari in Maasia Mara, Kenya
August 25, 2024
Kenya Day 6 So it’s 4am in the morning and I am on the way
My New African Name!! Nana Nyarkoa
August 25, 2024
While in Ghana, one of the local kings gave me a new African name during a naming ceremony.
In A Word | Ghana
August 25, 2024
By Luana M. Graves Sellars African Name – Nana Nyarkoa Well, it’s August 15th and
Q&A: What is Heirs’ Property?
May 21, 2024
A large part of my conversation with Luana focuses on a concept called heirs property, a form of land ownership that occurs when someone dies without a will, leaving heirs without a clear title to the property. Without definitive proof of land ownership, heirs property owners can’t get home improvement loans, farm loans, and certain kinds of insurance, among a host of other things.
In A Word | Plantations
March 5, 2024
Plantations visually, tend to be strikingly beautiful places that also embody and represent violence, pain and suffering.
Gullah Geechee Strength, Perseverance and Resilience
September 6, 2023
When we think about slavery, we don’t usually consider the day to day or the gory details. The general knowledge of captivity, hard labor and cruelty are the basics, but for the most part, the actual experience that enslaved people went through are forgotten. Slavery inflicted generational trauma in so many different ways; fear, uncertainty, humiliation and mental and physical stressors.