Tag Archives: Gullah/Geechee Nation
Queen’s Chronicle: A Labor of Black Love
Uplifting Black people out of not only financial poverty but spiritual poverty is truly a labor of Black love. Many have been taught not to believe that we are beautiful, intelligent and powerful. This used to be done in an overt manner but now it is covert via the media-both mainstream and social. Therefore, people buy into imagery that lures them away from taking pride in uplifting themselves and their own communities. Therefore, as a leader, one has to be careful about who is with you as you go about the work that must be done “And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you.”
Queen Quet of the Gullah/Geechee Nation “Talking South Carolina”
Tune in to the “Talking South Carolina” interview with Queen Quet, Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation (www.QueenQuet.com). Tune in to Apple Podcast here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-30-the-talking-south-carolina-podcast/id1747952767?i=1000692872755
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.
Gullah/Geechee Love as Deep as the River
Win mi see cuz pun de oda side de family compound juss afta dayclean mi hail um. A quick laugh that morning turned into a flow of love that has rippled out and continued to return to me like a tide ebbing and flowing each day. As I’ve said before, ain nuttin like some Gullah/Geechee love fa tru!
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.
Party with the Gullah/Geechee for the 25th Anniversary!
De Gullah/Geechee Nation gwine be 25 years old een 2025! Disya bless up fa tru! So, there will be numerous events each month to celebrate this historic time! Jayn we fa de partee ya!
Gullah/Geechee CREATE Showcase
Jayn we fa de Gullah/Geechee CREATE Artwork Showcase on historic St. Helena Island, SC on Satdee, February 1, 2025 frum Noon ta 2 pm! The artists reception will begin at Noon sharp and attendees will get to vote on the best of show!
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.