Category Archives: Environmental Justice
HEADS UP! Protect Gullah/Geechee Sacred Burial Areas!
HEADS UP Gullah/Geechee Nation Famlee! STAND UP on Tuesday and protect our sacred Gullah/Geechee burial areas!
Join us at the BIg House Cemetery Court Hearing
on Tuesday, December 16, 2025, at 9:30 am at
the Beaufort County Courthouse
102 Ribaut Rd, Beaufort, SC 29902
Room 208
HEADS UP! Help Protect Gullah/Geechee Epicenter St. Helena Island ONCE AGAIN!
Join us Monday, December 8th before 6 pm at the Beaufort County Council Meeting at 100 Ribaut Road in Beaufort, SC to make sure that the Beaufort County Council continues to uphold their vote to protect the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Protection Overlay District of St. Helena Island, SC in the Gullah/Geechee Nation! We binya! We ain gwne nowhey!
Gullah/Geechee Ancestral Voices Speak to Protect St. Helena Island from Destructionment
For three years running, the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, our attorneys from the South Carolina Environmental Law Center, the Coastal Conservation League, Penn Center and a cadre of additional partners have continued to stand up to Protect St. Helena Island. This year, two of our fighters that understood that we are warring against spiritual wickedness in high and low places crossed over in the realm of the ancestors. The first one that made his crossing was Rev. Kenneth Hodges of the “Gullah/Geechee Visitors Center” who pastored Tabernacle Baptist Church in Beaufort, SC where we unveiled the Harriet Tubman Monument. We stood together many times on each of these things and in each of these places. His words live on as he speaks from the grave concerning the St. Helena Island Cultural Protection Overlay District…
Gullah/Geechee CREATE Day with CLAM
Jayn een as the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Community Trust, Gullah/Geehee Sea lsland Coalition and Gullah/Geechee Legacy host Gullah/Geechee CREATE where we will open CLAM-Cultural Legacy Advancing Marine Science.
Saturday, September 6, 2025
12-3 pm
The Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (GTM Research Reserve)
505 Guana River Road Ponte Vedra Beach, FL 32082
Gullah/Geechee Film Doubleheader at the International African American Museum (IAAM)
As part of the International African American Museum Summer Film Series: On Thursday, June 5 from 6PM to 9PM we present a special dual screening of “A Tree Story” and a preview screening of “High Water”—two powerful films that examine the ongoing fight to preserve land, culture, and memory in the Lowcountry.
STAND UP for the CPO! Protecting the Gullah/Geechee Epicenter
HEADS UP! STAND UP! Protect the CPO! The repackaged plans to remove Pine Island/St. Helenaville from St. Helena’s CPO and enter into a development agreement with the County to build a gated golf resort on the Pine Island/St. Helenaville property in violation of the CPO go before the Planning Commission TONIGHT 5/5 at 6pm at 100 Clearwater Way in Beaufort, SC.
Gullah/Geechee April Activities with Queen Quet
The entire month of April will be focused on honoring our ancestral legacy and continuing the sustainability of our Gullah/Geechee culture and our coast. Cum fa jayn we een SC!
Gullah/Geechee Ancestors Honored via the Coosaw Sea Island Cotton Heritage Preserve
Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation said: “The discovery of this area of Coosaw that appeared to be captured in time and held for the appropriate use in the way that foods are when we preserve them in the Gullah/Geechee Nation is not only significant to us but is a blessing.”
WaterSC Listening Session on Historic St. Helena Island, SC in the Gullah/Geechee Nation
A member of #WaterSC, Queen Quet, Chieftess and Head-of-State for the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com), is hosting an April 8 #WaterSC listening session at Penn Center on historic St. Helena Island to spark conversations about the protection and management of water resources in South Carolina. This listening session is an opportunity for residents to speak with #WaterSC participants, learn about water use and planning in our state, and provide input on how South Carolina’s irreplaceable water resources can be best preserved for generations to come. Stop by and be a part of this important conversation!
Gullah/Geechee Creating Resilience
The Gullah/Geechee Saving Environmental Actions (SEA) & Marine Environment (ME) Program of the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition has used a myriad of tools to enhance the resilience and sustainability of the Sea Islands in the Gullah/Geechee Nation.