The traditions and culture of West Africans brought to America through the Atlantic slave trade have been preserved for generations through the Gullah and Geechee people. Today, this community of ...

This week on New Year's Eve, a historic church in downtown Charleston, S.C., will host a special celebration. It's a tradition that dates back more than 150 years. And it commemorates the freedom of ...

Gullah, a largely oral, African-American creole taught at Harvard for the first time last fall, is now being offered for a second semester. A combination of West African languages, English, and words ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — It's gotten 358,000 plus views and counting. A Facebook video is helping keep the Geechee language alive. It's a language spoken by Gullah people, which are an African-American ...

If you make your way to Boone Hall Plantation and Gardens in Mount Pleasant, you can find a unique presentation titled “Exploring the Gullah Culture.” In it, the Gullah Geechee people demonstrate the ...

ST. HELENA ISLAND, S.C. - More than a quarter century after the laborious work began, the New Testament has finally been translated into Gullah, the creole language spoken by slaves and their ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The Gullah Geechee Black History Market will happen Saturday at the Cigar Factory with Charleston Mayor John Tecklenburg giving opening remarks. Attendees of The Gullah ...

It’s a culture and a people — and a language. It’s unique to the South Atlantic seaboard, particularly the sea islands where freedmen lived in isolation for a century after the Civil War. Heavy ...

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 ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. The Gullah Geechee language is spoken by ...