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The Fight for Black and Gullah/Geechee Freedom
I heard myself with throngs of ancestors singing “Fight on just a little while longer! Pray on just a little while longer! Hold on just a little while longer!” I rested in that moment knowing that the ancestors were tapping their children’s children’s children on the shoulders (and some in the head) awakening them to join in the fight. To take a stand for Gullah/Geechee land! WE BINYA and ain’t gwine nowhey!
De Will fa Keep @GullahGeechee Land
by Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) I have spent over four decades of my life fighting for Gullah/Geechees to maintain their land ownership. Over the decades, I have been deposed in numerous legal cases and we won all of them. I give thanks for the numerous lawyers that provided legal advice to …
Black Folks Land Legacy Conference in the Gullah/Geechee Nation
The “Inaugural Black Folks Land Legacy Conference” is being sponsored by the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition (www.gullahgeechee.net) in celebration of their 20th Anniversary as a part of a series of events that they are hosting for the “International Decade of People of African Descent.”
The “Black Folks Land Legacy Conference” is an interactive three day session on historic St. Helena Island, SC in the Gullah/Geechee Nation which is a predominately Gullah/Geechee owned and operated Sea Island.
Pan African Family Empowerment Network Seeks Volunteers
As “Gullah/Geechee Nation Volunteer Month” continues, we are pleased to announce that the Pan-African Family Empowerment Network which is a Beaufort-based public charity which was created to help Gullah/Geechee and other African descendants save their land for current and future generations is seeking volunteers for multiple positions. They have an immediate need for an experienced webmaster, grants …
Gullah/Geechee Land Legacy pun Edisto wid de Freedmen’s Bureau
by Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com) Edisto Island is nestled amidst a chain of South Carolina Sea Islands draped with Spanish moss that cloaks the oak trees lining the way to this place that is uniquely part of both Charleston and Colleton Counties. Edisto has the story of bring people of different …