Sherman Pyatt is the former Commissioner of Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, a lecturer and an author.

The Gullah Geechee descended from Africans enslaved on the rice, indigo and cotton plantations. Efforts are underway to ...

The Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor stretches from the coast of Florida to the coast of North Carolina. Here's what you need ...

The Gullah Geechee people created their own language. Here are some common words along with their translations.

Words are just part of telling a great story. In the 10 years that we have put out The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Black History Month series, we also paid close attention to how we told these ...

If we don’t pass these stories down, they won’t know and won’t care and because we don’t enough, is one of the reasons I feel ...

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the ...

Fresh off her Grammy Album of the Year win, Beyoncé is taking her ‘Cowboy Carter’ album on the road with a four-night engagement at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood starting things off April 28. The cultural ...

Many municipalities across the Lowcountry celebrate Black History Month by teaching the heritage and rich culture of African ...

As part of Black History Month, South Carolina State Museum is taking its Harvesting Heritage series to the Lowcountry.

Roots and Realities will have its opening reception on Thursday, Feb. 6 at 6 p.m., featuring a conversation with Farris and ...

A Riverbanks Botanical Garden workshop explored Gullah sweetgrass basketry, a Lowcountry tradition experts say is at risk due ...