Who are the Black or African Seminoles? Who are the Black (African) Seminoles descendants of? Enslavers intentionally separated captured Africans from the same village or region to reduce the ...

As a native of Hilton Head Island, Lola Campbell grew up with a deep appreciation for her Gullah-Geechee heritage and history. Her family has been on the island for six generations and are dedicated ...

CHARLESTON THAT WEAVES TOGETHER THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. SWEETGRASS BASKETS WERE BROUGHT INTO THE CAROLINAS IN THE 1600S BASED OFF OF RICE CULTIVATION. SWEETGRASS BASKETS HAVE CONNECTED GENERATIONS ...

MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC) - A White House-ordered review of the Smithsonian museums could result in the removal of a Lowcountry sweetgrass basket maker’s work. The internal review is designed to ...

Passionate about the legacy of her artform, master craftswoman and basket maker Jery Bennett Taylor (b.1953) has been honoring her Gullah Geechee heritage for almost seven decades. The Gullah Geechee ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Gullah Geechee community is an integral part of South Carolina. The Gullah are an African American group who live in the Lowcountry part of the Southeast, especially the ...

SAVANNAH, G.A. (WCIV) — Vice President Kamala Harris, while visiting a store in Savannah, Georgia bought a traditional Gullah sweetgrass basket from a Charleston native. Harris, in Savannah as part of ...