Category Archives: Gullah/Geechee Riddim Radio Education Links
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.
Black Identity and Black History: The Gullah/Geechee Legacy
Our ancestors often held candlelight vigils and I led some in my youth as well. I am inspired to light a candle every day for the rest of this month as I pray that our Black families as a whole will catch on fire with wanting to stand up pridefully and in their identity as people that descend from those whose strength is the very reason that the Black race has survived and continues to strive. We have a right to celebrate that identity not only in February but every day of the year! I chose to continue to share Black history in order to help others in their search for truth and identity because by doing so I honor my ancestors and continue the Gullah/Geechee legacy.
Healin de Wata and Healin We: Victory and Vision of the Gullah/Geechee
In 2024, the Gullah/Geechee Nation’s leaders advanced the Gullah/Geechee Nation Sustainability Plan by successfully and effectively focusing on various mechanisms by which to protect the waters surrounding the Sea Islands and running through the region. This included focusing on the Savannah River, the Port Royal Sound, the St. Helena Sound, Ribault River and the Salkehatchie Rivers as well as the Atlantic Ocean in particular.
Saving a Southern Treasure: Protect the Blake Plateau
The Blake Plateau is a cultural, spiritual, historical, and ecological treasure. It serves as the final leg of the Middle Passage, the seafaring route by which our ancestors—as enslaved West and Central Africans—were transported to America. It should be recognized as the ancestral graveyard of our enslaved relatives who did not survive its crossing.
Gullah/Geechee Fighting Against Golf, Gates and Genocide
This on-going battle to protect historic St. Helena Island, South Carolina from succumbing to the fate of numerous Black communities in which the people are displaced for the purpose of others’ recreation and plots and plans of genocidal gentrification should stand as an example of what came be done when people not only respect the law but when they respect the cultural heritage communities that they come into.
Gullah/Geechee September 2024 Celebrations
As we fall into fall, it’s time to celebrate cultural heritage continuation with the native Gullah/Geechees y’all! Cum fa jayn we een SC!
Gullah/Geechee Agroculture & CREATE Day 2024
Jayn we fa “Gullah/Geechee Agroculture & Gullah/Geechee CREATE Day” pun historic St. Helena Island SC!
Gullah/Geechee Nation Appreciation Week 2024
Ef hunnuh waan kno de trut bout who webe, hunnuh hafa jayn dem who be Gullah/Geechee! Jayn we fa “Gullah/Geechee Nation Appreciation Week 2024” fa “Gullah/Geechee Tekin a Stand and Healin de Land!”
Queen Quet of the Gullah/Geechee Returns to the SC State Library
Join Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) as she returns to the South Carolina State Library in Columbia, SC on Saturday, June 29, 2024 at 11 am. Disya gwine be fa de chillun! Bring the entire family for story time and the book signing.
Gullah/Geechee NFL Film Nominated for 4 Emmys!
Emmy Winning Director & Producer Osahon Tongo joined forces with film consultant and producer, Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation to truly make movie magic! NFL 360 premiered “The Chief Who Walked the Sea” as a Black History Month feature film. This film salute to legendary Gullah/Geechee football great and activist, the late Jim Brown of St. Simon’s Island in the Gullah/Geechee Nation starred an all Gullah/Geechee cast. “The Chief Who Walked the Sea” is now a 4x Emmy nominated film!