Gullah Burial Traditions
January 26, 2026
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.
Gullah Culture
The Art of Storytelling
November 10, 2025
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.
Sea Island Cotton
July 2, 2025
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
June 20, 2025
The Crying River is an excerpt from the book of poems, One Voice of a People, by Stephen Q. Gray
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.
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.
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.
