The Gullah-Geechee residents of Sapelo Island were already facing a number of stressors: gentrification, tax hikes and an ...

Al Williams (D) said he and others in the Gullah Geechee community throughout the United States were “mourning along with our many, many friends.” President Joe Biden spoke with Georgia Gov.

The tragedy happened during Gullah-Geechee Cultural Heritage Awareness Month, which is celebrated in October in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The Sapelo ...

Small communities descended from enslaved island populations in the South — known as Gullah, or Geechee in Georgia — are scattered along the coast from North Carolina to Florida. Scholars say ...

Camden County Sheriff's Office/Facebook Hundreds of people were gathered to celebrate the Gullah-Geechee community on Georgia's Sapelo Island on Saturday, Oct. 19, when a ferry dock gangway ...

Hundreds of people were gathered to celebrate the Gullah-Geechee community on Georgia's Sapelo Island on Saturday, Oct. 19, when a ferry dock gangway collapsed, killing at least seven people and ...

a Gullah-Geechee community, on June 10, 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Authorities said at least seven ...

A tragic accident on Georgia's Sapelo Island claimed the lives of at least seven people after a ferry dock gangway collapsed on Saturday during a fall celebration of the island's Gullah-Geechee ...