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Two elderly Black women.

How the Memory of a Song Reunited Two Women Separated by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

In 1990, scholars found a Sierra Leonean woman who remembered a nearly identical version of a tune passed down by a Georgia woman’s enslaved ancestors
by Joshua Kagavi via Smithsonian on February 29, 2024
Donellia Chives, a trustee of Penn Center.

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.
by DeNeen L. Brown via The Guardian on March 30, 2023
Howard Coffin hosts President Calvin Coolidge on Sapelo Island, Georgia.

Black Gullah Culture Fascinated Americans Just As President Coolidge Visited

The culture on Sapelo Island, Georgia was unique.
by Melissa L. Cooper via Timeline on July 7, 2017
Collage of various black women mentioned within the article.

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Edda L. Fields-Black on the Combahee River Raid

Harriet Tubman’s revolutionary Civil War raid and the power of preserving Black history in the face of political pushback.
by Edda Fields-Black, Janell Hobson via Ms. Magazine on June 2, 2025
Inscription on Gullah-Geechee gravestone

Hilton Head Island— Haunted by Its Own History

Historical traces of racism and exclusion remain on the island. It’s just that new residents can’t—or won’t—read them.
by Alexa Hazel via Public Books on July 20, 2021

The Haunting of Drums and Shadows

On the stories and landscapes the Federal Writers’ Project left unexplored.
by Sam Worley via Lapham’s Quarterly on May 11, 2020
“Big Elliott” Wright at the Big Apple Night Club.

Set the Country to Stamping

The origins of the Big Apple dance.
by Robert Greene II via Oxford American on November 19, 2019

African Americans Have Lost Untold Acres of Land Over the Last Century

An obscure legal loophole is often to blame.
by Leah Douglas via The Nation on June 26, 2017

Who Owns Uncle Ben?

The roots of rice in South Carolina's Lowcountry are troubling and complicated. Today, we stir the pot.
by Shane Mitchell via The Bitter Southerner on June 6, 2017
Jonesville Historic Gullah Neighborhood resident Josephine Wright stands between her home and an orange safety fence of a construction site on Hilton Head Island, S.C.

Developers Have Black Families Fighting to Maintain Property and History

All along the South Carolina coast, developers looking to profit on vacation getaways and new homes are targeting land owned by descendants of enslaved people.
by James Pollard via AP News on August 12, 2023
Stock photo of tomatoes.

The Southern Story of Tomatoes

Tales of the treasured South American-born, Southern-bred vegetable (yes, vegetable).
by Caroline Sanders Clements via Garden & Gun on June 8, 2022
A plan of what buildings are to be removed for the Freeway expansion.

Black People Are About To Be Swept Aside For A South Carolina Freeway — Again

In a planned highway widening project, 94 percent of displaced residents live in communities mostly consisting of Black and Brown people.
by Darryl Fears via Washington Post on September 8, 2021
A drawing of a church in Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1812.

The Story of Denmark Vesey

Against the backdrop of another conflict over slavery in 1861, Thomas Wentworth Higginson wrote an in-depth narrative of Denmark Vesey's planned slave revolt in Charleston, SC.
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson via The Atlantic on June 1, 1861

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