Yes, we know that there are pockets of Gullah Geechee communities along the southeastern coastline, but were you aware that there are several inland too?? I didn’t think so.
The not to familiar link between the Sea Islands and the Black Seminole communities in the West is defined by a lesser-known chapter of history often called the “Saltwater Underground Railroad.”
During slavery, funerals were seen as a time to reconnect with the ancestors. Burials could only be held at night and by candlelight, after all of the day’s work was completed.
Stories always have a moral center, as well as a purpose. They were designed to be a demonstration of how one could use the power of the mind in most cases over the need for brawn. They were also reminders of ways to show resistance and share the importance of cultural values and wisdom.
By Tom Bouthillet For 30,000 years, humans wore linen made from flax. Then, in the late 1700s, everything changed. As Europe abandoned ancient linen for revolutionary cotton, William Elliott planted
The Crying River is an excerpt from the book of poems, One Voice of a People, by Stephen Q. Gray
Want to find your roots? Listen in on why it’s a valuable and important journey to start.
While in Ghana, one of the local kings gave me a new African name during a naming ceremony.
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.
Plantations visually, tend to be strikingly beautiful places that also embody and represent violence, pain and suffering.
