Gina Capers-Willis calls herself a Geechee Girl. Her roots come from Daufuskie Island, South Carolina and the Gullah islands off the Georgia coast. But she grew up in Savannah at a time when she says ...

Gullah Geechee people are descendants of Africans who were enslaved in coastal areas of the southeastern United States. They held onto traditions from Africa and mixed them with new ones, forming ...

An 89-year-old first-time cookbook author, Emily Meggett, celebrates the cuisine of South Carolina's Gullah Geechee community and its African and... Cookbook celebrates the tradition of Gullah Geechee ...

Alexander Smalls is Southern through and through. “I’m like Faulkner,” he says. “We put commas, not periods on everything—it’s never over.” This sentiment rings true not only in his storytelling but ...

D: Two Gullah chefs from the Hamlin community will celebrate Black History Month Feb. 15 by hosting the fourth annual Taste ...

On a recent trip to Charleston, South Carolina, I met Benjamin “BJ” Dennis at the James Island Sunday Brunch Farmers Market. We pause in front of the Simmons Farm stand to shake sand out of my shoes — ...