This week on Awareness, Billie Jean Shaw spoke to Gullah Geechee educator Dr. Jessica Berry. A native of the low country, Dr. Berry has created a platform to dispel the myths about the Gullah Geechee ...

The language spoken by the Gullah Geechee people was created from a mix of African tribal languages, English and European ...

The fascinating and close-knit Gullah Geechee culture of the Sea Islands of Georgia and South Carolina, which evolved in an almost timeless shell, with its own dialect and way of life, is still a ...

African languages have influenced the dialects spoken by some Americans. The New Testament of the Bible has now been translated into that dialect. Consider the story of the Good Samaritan, who happens ...

NORTH CHARLESTON — In 1929, the Black scholar Lorenzo Dow Turner first heard the Gullah language when he taught a summer course at S.C. State College. At the time, Gullah was considered a dialect, a ...

Marquetta “Queen Quet” Goodwine spent some time teaching the Gullah culture at the Gullah Museum for Gullah Geeche Famlee Day. A St. Helena Island native, Quet is chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee ...

The Gullah Geechee people are descendants of enslaved West and Central Africans who live along the southeastern coast of the U.S. The Gullah Geechee Chamber of Commerce and the William Monroe Trotter ...