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Gullah Geechee

April 2024

  • Black man with very long dreads, wearing black T-shirt, cream blazer, and gray khakis poses in front of long chalkboard between two chairs.

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    ‘I Gullah Geechee, too’: the educators keeping a language of enslaved Africans alive

    Sunn m’Cheaux and Akua Page teach Gullah language and culture from juvenile incarceration facilities to Harvard

March 2024

  • close up of an older woman in a white blouse

    South Carolina woman posthumously wins settlement over Black ancestral land

    Josephine Wright caught national media attention for pushing back against developers trying to buy Hilton Head property

November 2023

  • Welcome sign to St. Helena Island in South Carolina, home of the Gullah culture.

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Inside a controversial auction of Gullah-Geechee homes: ‘This land needs to be protected’

    Tax-burdened property owned by the descendants of formerly enslaved people in South Carolina is being sold to hedge funds and developers

October 2023

  • portraits of two people wearing black

    ‘Our language is real’: jarrett hill and Tre’vell Anderson’s new book is an education in Black communication

    Historically Black Phrases breaks down sayings and metaphors created and popularized by the community, giving it due credit

September 2023

  • In an overgrown field, a middle-aged Black man wearing a red T-shirt and baseball cap walks away from the fallen-down stone walls of a building.

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    ‘Nothing changed, just the players’: anger after vote threatens Gullah Geechee community

  • A black and white image of workers at a cotton ginning mill

    Cotton Capital: ongoing series
    Gullah-Geechee people fight against ‘erasure’ of their historical land

March 2023

  • Donellia Chives, trustee of Penn Center, in front of the first school for emancipated slaves in the US

    Cotton Capital: a special investigation 2023
    White gold from Black hands: the Gullah Geechee fight for a legacy after slavery

    Descendants of the west Africans who picked the cotton that made Manchester rich are struggling to keep their distinct culture alive
  • The Manchester Guardian

    First Edition newsletter
    Wednesday briefing: The real origins of the money that helped found the Guardian

    In today’s newsletter: The Guardian’s owner has apologised for the newspaper’s historic links to the trade of enslaved people – this is why
  • Composite including workers in a cotton field in St Helena 1863-66, and a pile of the first Manchester Guardians from 1821

    Cotton Capital: a special investigation 2023
    Guardian owner apologises for founders’ links to transatlantic slavery

    Scott Trust to invest in decade-long programme of restorative justice after academic research into newspaper’s origins

October 2019

  • Queen Quet at the Hunting Island Nature Center in St. Helena Island, South Carolina.

    Our unequal earth
    Gullah Geechee: distinct US culture risks losing island home to climate crisis

    Fierce storms and rising seas are causing existential angst for communities in Alaska, Arizona and other states on the front line of the climate crisis

September 2018

  • The boat Laura Herriott use to cross the Waccamaw needs a new battery so she’s keeping git docked on the mainland.

    'Our history is getting erased': the biggest threat to Sandy Island's Gullah is not hurricanes

    A South Carolina community that has retained its African-influenced language weathered last week’s storm but faces other challenges to its future
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