The 36th Original Gullah Festival — a celebration of Gullah Geechee culture and history — returns this weekend, when it’s expected to attract as many as 20,000 people over three days to Beaufort’s ...

The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission hosted its second annual Gullah Convening dedicated to celebrating, ...

Hilton Head broke ground on Taylor Family Park, a 4.9-acre gathering space that will honor the area’s Gullah culture and ...

The Christmas spiritual "Mary Had a Baby” is believed to have originated on St. Helena Island and grew in popularity, driven ...

I started 2023 off with a trip exploring the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. Excitement was an understatement when I first learned about the trip. I’d known of the Gullah people from ...

Reporting from ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. — When the remnants of Hurricane Matthew threatened the coastal lowlands of South Carolina, 335,000 people fled for higher ground. Marquetta Goodwine stayed put.

ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Minnie “Gracie” Gadson claps her hands and stomps her feet against the floorboards, lifting her voice in a song passed down from her enslaved ancestors who were forced ...

The art of making sweetgrass baskets is not seen as much in Horry County, but many culture traditions of the Gullah Geechee community are still prevalent. Jason Lee [email protected] You don’t have ...

In 30 years, the Gullah-Geechee population on Hilton Head was nearly cut in half — from 14.5 percent in 1980 to 7.5 percent in 2010. The way to stop that number from creeping lower is to make land ...

Vacation season is here and many Americans will begin searching for scenic locales for their annual escape. Travelers seeking a southern sojourn who stumble on Conde Nast’s 2016 readers’ ranking of ...